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Apollo  Commandery, 

Re.  1, 

OF  CHrcAGo,  State  OF  ILLINOIS, 

From  May  20,  A.  D.  1845,  to  Sept.  30,  A.  D.  1884,  inclusive. 


Prepared  uiiiier  tie  ansnices  of  a  Comiittee  coasistiag  of 

Rt.  Em.  Sirs  Theodore  T.  Gurney,  William  H.  Turner  and  Em.  Sir 
Norman  T.  Gassette,  by  order  of  the  Commandery,  as  given 

BY  unanimous  vote  AT  THE  959TH  STATED  CONCLAVE, 

HELD  Tuesday  Evening,  June  i2TH,  A.  D.  1884, 

AND  APPROVED  BY  THE 

BDARIl  DF  TRUSTEES;  JULY  SBTHj  iaB4, 

AS  WRITTEN  AND  PREPARED  BY 

EMINENT  SIR  NORMAN  T,  GASSETTE, 


Published  A.  D.  1884,  during  the  administration  of  Eminent  Sir  Henry  S.  Tiffany,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Printing  Committee  raised  by  vote  of  the  Commandery,  at  the  Stated 
Conclave  held  June  17th,  1884,  and  consisting  of  Sirs  James  M.  Whitehead, 
Henry  H.  Hobbs  and  Frank  M.  Wood. 


CHICAGO: 
H.  C.  TIFFANY  &  CO.,  Pk  INTERS  AND  PUBLISHERS. 
1884. 


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HISTORY  OF 

Apollo  Commandery,  No,  1,  Knights  Templar, 

STATIONED  AT 

Chicago,  Cook  County,  State  of  Illinois. 
CHAPTER  I. 

A.   D.    1845   TO  A.  D.    1847,  INCLUSIVE. 

To  give  the  incidents  relating  to  the  preliminary  meetings  to  organize  a 
Commandery  so  old  as  Apollo  Commandery,  Number  i,  Knights  Templar,  meetingto'^^ 
is  a  task  not  easily  compassed,  because  our  Fraters  of  the  first  years  of  the  organize. 
Commandery  had  no  real  conception  of  the  zest  with  which  the  Records  recit- 
ing their  achievements  would  be  subsequently  scanned.    These  Records  omit 
given  names,  location,  dates  and  the  complex  motives  which  moved  them  to 

do,  and  to  make  choice  of  the  name  the  Commandery  bears.    The  difficulty  is  ^.      ^  „ 

'  ,        .  Fire  of  1871. 

increased  by  reason  of  the  great  fire  of  187 1,  and  the  migrations  of  the  Body 

and  Records  from  place  to  place  since  that  date.    In  the  first  case  papers  were 

destroyed,  in  the  second,  lost.    Fortunately,  the  Record  Books  were  preserved,  j^^^^^j.^ 

but  in  many  instances  are  very  incomplete  without  the  use  of  the  documents  to  books  saved. 

which  they  refer.    Not  one  of  the  few  Sir  Knights  alive  who  were  members  of 

the  Commandery  at  an  early  date,  have  any  definite  recollection  of  the  whole 

of  the  causes  which  culminated  in  the  choice  of  the  name  of  Apollo  Encamp-       .  . 

'  Choice  of  a 

ment,  but  sufficient  information  has  been  obtained,  if  we  consider  other  acces-  name. 

sible  data  to  determine  the  origin.    It  is  quite  certain  that  Apollo  Encampment 

was  not  named  after  any  Masonic  Body  which  had  had  an  existence,  or  which 

then  maintained  itself  at  the  date  the  petition  was  signed  asking  the  General 

Grand  Encampment  for  a  Dispensation.    Some  of  the  petitioners  may  have 

been  influenced  by  associating  the  name  with  once  existent  or  surviving 

Masonic  Bodies,  but  the  choice  of  the  name  for  the  organization  they  sought 

to  create  had  a  deeper  and  more  significant  meaning  than  this.    Among  the 

Sir  Knights  who  affixed  their  names  to  the  petition  to  the  General  Grand 


I  362853 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Encampment,  could  be  found  classical  scholars  and  well-read  men.  Members 
of  the  learned  professions,  men  of  enterprise,  and  men  who  had  a  profound 
knowledge  of  the  world,  cause  and  effect,  and  results  consequent  to  the  emu- 
lation of  lofty  ideals. 

The  Grecian  God,  Apollo,  represented  by  Homer  as  an  archer,  the  God  of 
song  and  stringed  instruments,  the  God  of  flocks,  the  revealer  of  future  events, 
and  by  subsequent  writers  as  the  God  of  healing  arts,  father  of  ^sculapius, 
Protector  of  the  Muses,  ever  young,  with  his  brow  bound  with  sacred  bay-tree, 
as  the  Sun,  and  ever  pure  and  matchless,  represented  such  a  variety  of  the 
highest  attributes  symbolically,  that  such  symbolism  epitomized  one  of  the 
grandest  ideals  to  induce  concentrated  effort  and  chivalric  emulation  to  reach 
the  highest  standing.    None  but  an  ignoramus  who  sticks  to  the  letter  and 
hence  to  the  bark  of  cause,  would  forget  the  age  of  the  world  when  Apollo 
was  clothed  with  such  exalted  attributes,  nor  fail  to  know  that  the  ideas  sym- 
bolized in  him  were  as  grand  in  many  essentials  as  any  we  have  to-day;  emanat- 
ing as  they  did  from  the  purest  aspirations  of  the  human  heart ;   and  that  from 
such  sources  the  beacon  lights  are  lit,  that,  blazing  up,  constitute  the  punctua- 
The  name  tion  periods  SO  to  speak  in  our  best  civilization.    The  name  "Apollo"  was 
Apollo        chosen,  and  when  cognizant  of  the  fact  that  the  Sir  Knight  promoters  of 
chosen.        ^^^^^^  Encampment,  No.  I,  sanctioned  and  influenced  the  naming  of  the  second 
Commandery  in  the  State,  located  at  Alton,  and  that  that  Commandery  bears 
the  name  of  "  Belvidere,"  the  motive  for  the  choice  is  undoubtedly  made 
manifest. 

Petition  to     The  petition  for  a  Dispensation  to  the  General  Grand  Encampment  was 
^e  Grand  j^^^^  without  date,  and,  among  other  things,  recites  the  following  : 
for ?  olpen-     That  the  undersigned,  who  have  regularly  received  the  several  degrees  neces- 
sary,  represent:    "That  the  establishment  of  an  Encampment  of  Knight 
Templars  and  the  appendant  Orders,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  will  greatly  sub- 
serve  the  honor,  usefulness  and  interests  of  the  Institution  of  Free  Masonry,^' 
'     and  there  "  being  no  Grand  or  Subordinate  Encampment  in  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois, nor  in  any  adjoining  State  or  Territory,     ^       *       *       *     solicit  a 
Warrant  of  Dispensation  or  Charter,  instituting  them  an  Encampment  of 
Knight  Templars,    *       *       *       *    by  the  name  of  Apollo  Encampment, 
Number  One,  Chicago,  Illinois,  with  Sir  William  Frederick  Walker  as  Grand 
Commander,  Sir  John  Roman  Case  as  Generalissimo,  and  Sir  William  Stuart, 
Captain  General."     Said  petition   was  duly  executed  by  the  Sir  Knights 
whose  names  appear  upon  the  Dispensation,  as  subsequently  noted. 

May  I5ih  A.  D.  1845,  a  Dispensation  "  To  open  and  hold  an  Encampment 
SS!' of  Knight  Templars  and  Knights  of  Malta,  and  a  Council  of  the  Appendant 
Orders  at  the  city  of  Chicago,  by  the  name  of  Apollo  Encampment,  No.  i," 
with  officers  and  other  privileges,  in  accord  with  the  prayer  of  the  petitioners, 
until  the  second  Thursday  of  September,  in  the  year  1847,'*  was  duly  received 
and  in  accord  therewith  -  Apollo  Encampment  No.  I  "  was  duly  formed  and 
opened  in  solemn  form  at  the  date  and  place  herein  stated.  Present  "  Most 
Excellent  and  Reverend  Sir  William  Frederick  Walker,  Grand  Commander," 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Eminent  Sir  John  Roman  Case,  Generalissimo,  Eminent  Sir  William  Stuart, 
Captain  General  and  Sir  Knights  Henry  Brown,  William  Moreland  Davis 
Ryan,  A.  B.  Lewis  and  John  Ranney. 

The  Dispensation  was  dated  May  5th,  1845,  and  was  granted  by  the  General  -^P^^^  °f 
Grand  Encampment  through  Joseph  K.  Stapleton,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
Deputy  General  Grand  Master  of  the  General  Grand  Encampment  of  Knights 
Templar  for  the  United  States  of  America. 

The  names  on  the  Dispensation  were :  Sirs  William  Frederick  Walker,  John  Names  on 
Roman  Case,  William  Stuart,  William  Moreland  Davis  Ryan,  A.  B.  Lewis,  Dispensation 
S.  H.  Gilbert,  Isaac  Haight,  G.  C.  Blodgett,  John  Ranney  and  Henry  Brown. 

The  first  Conclave  was  held  on  the  forenoon  of  May  20th,  1845,       the  First 
Masonic  Hall  in  Loomis  Building,  corner  of  Clark  and  Water  streets.  Conclave. 

The  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  was  conferred  May  20th,  1845,  upon  Companions     Order  of 
Jacob  Beeson,  W.  A.  Rowlatt,  W.  S.  Brown,  P.  P.  Robinson,  Charles  Robert  ^^'^ 
Starkweather,  Charles  Follansbee  and  C.  Britain,  who  were  severally  intro- 
duced and  regularly  constituted  and  created  Knights  of  the  Illustrious  Order 
of  the  Red  Cross.    This  was  the  first  work  done  and  the  orders  were  conferred     The  first 
by  William  Frederick  Walker,  Sovereign  Master,  John  Roman  Case,  Chancel-  ^""^ 
lor,  and  William  Stuart,  Master  of  Palace. 

After  it  had  received  a  Dispensation  to  do  so,  Apollo  Encampment,  No.  i. 
Knights  Templar,  set  out  to  accomplish  the  objects  for  which  it  was  organ-  Encampment 
ized,  with  the  manifest  energy  one  should  imagine  would  be  exhibited  by  a  accompli's°h 
Body  made  up  of  such  men  as  composed  its  membership.    It  being  the  first  the  objects 
Encampment  organized  in  this  or  any  adjoining  State  or  Territory,  and  as  the  was^rgan-^*^ 
scope  of  its  correct  history  most  thoroughly  constitutes  a  vital  part  of  the 
Masonic  History  of  the  State  and  this  section  of  country,  a  greater  definiteness 
of  detail  as  to  acts  and  early  membership  is  indulged  in  than  would  otherwise 
be  permissible;  besides,  as  some  of  the  Eminent  Sir  Knights  who  fostered  its 
growth  during  its  infancy  and  youth,  and  for  subsequent  years  are  such  integral 
factors  of  its  history  and  so  pivotal  from  epoch  to  epoch  in  its  progress,  that  no 
history  of  the  Body  would  be  at  all  complete  without  specific  personal  allusions 
to  them,  they  are  consequently  referred  to  and  written  of  without  hesitation. 

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Encampment  it  was  voted  to  pay  twenty  dollars  Sir  John  Bar- 
to  Sir  John  Barney  as  Instructor  for  the  Sir  Knights;  the  fees  for  the  Orders  "sSuctof 
were  fixed  at  twenty  dollars,  and  a  committee  appointed,  with  full  power,  to  at  ^20. 
provide,  fit  up  and  furnish  a  suitable  hall  for  the  occupancy  of  the  Encampment. 

The  Order  of  the  Temple  was  conferred  for  the  first  time  at  the  Regular  ^he  Order  of 
Communication  held  May  23d,  1845,  upon  Illustrious  Knights  of  the  Red 
Cross,  Philip  P.  Robinson,  W.  S.  Brown  and  Rev.  W.  A.  Rowlatt;  and  at  the  the  first  time, 
subsequent  Conclave,  held  June  13th,  1845,  Red  Cross  Knights  Charles  Foll- 
ansbee and  Charles  Robert  Starkweather  were  constituted,  created  and  dubbed 
"  Knight  Templars  "  ;  and  immediately  thereafter  (at  the  same  Conclave)  the 
following  officers  were  appointed:  Sir  W.  S.  Brown,  Senior  Warden;  Sir 
Charles  Follansbee,  Treasurer,  and  Sir  Charles  Robert  Starkweather,  Recorder; 
to  the  last  of  whom  an  annual  salary  of  ten  dollars  was  voted.    At  the  Con- 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


ceived  and 
referred. 


Committee 
on  Hall,  re- 
port. 


Petitionsof  Clave  held  June  27th,  1845,  Illustrious  Knight  of  the  Red  Cross  Jacob  Beeson 
Reuben  Tay-  ^^^^  constituted  a  Templar,  and  petitions  from  Companions  Reuben  Tayler  and 
'Hoafd"?el  Samuel  Hoard  were  received  and  referred.  They  were  both  elected  at  the 
■  '  Conclave  held  July  nth,  and  Companion  Reuben  Tayler  created  a  Kmght  of 
the  Red  Cross.  The  following  8th  day  of  August,  1845,  Samuel  Hoard  re- 
ceived the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  at  the  Conclave  held  July  25th  of  the 
same  year  Reuben  Tayler  was  knighted  a  Templar ;  and  at  the  subsequent 
Conclave,  held  December  12th,  1845,  Red  Cross  Knight  Samuel  Hoard  was 
constituted,  created  and  dubbed  a  Knight  Templar. 

At  the  Conclave  held  August  22d,  1845,  the  committee  to  whom  was  referred 
the  matter  of  securing  a  hall,  made  report  that  they  had  procured  a  lease  from 
Messrs  Silas  B.  Cobb  and  Bishop,  for  a  period  of  ten  years  from  September 
1st  1845  of  apartments  consisting  of  the  fourth  story  and  one  roomm  thethird 
story  of  a  building  on  the  north  side  of  Lake  street,  between  Wells  street  (Fifth 
avenue  now)  and  LaSalle  streets,  for  an  annual  rent  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty  dollars,  payable  quarterly ;  and  in  accordance  therewith,  Most  Excellent 
Sir  William  Frederick  Walker,  and  Sirs  John  Roman  Case,  William  Stuart  and 
Charles  Follansbee  were  appointed  a  committee  to  execute  the  lease  for  the 
premises,  and  about  the  first  of  the  succeeding  October,  1845,  the  Encamp- 
ment  occupied  their  new  quarters  for  the  first  time.    The  store  and  other  parts 
.      of  this  building  were  occupied  by  the  owners,  Messrs,  Cobb  &  Bishop  as  a  har- 
ness and  saddlery  establishment, 
p  •  •      f      The  petition  of  Companion  Henry  King,  of  Brmkam,  VVashinglon  County, 
Henry  King.  7^,^^,  ^as  received  and  the  petitioner  duly  elected  to  receive  the  Orders  at  the 
^^iv^d^'^dh;  Conclave  held  August  30th,  1845,  and  he  constituted  a  Knight  of  the  Red 
kmghted  and  ^^^^^ ,  ^  subsequent  Conclave,  held  September  3d  of  the  eame  year,  he 

Selp"form  a  .^^s  duly  constituted,  Created  and  dubbed  a  Knight  Templar,  and  his  Dimit 
ne.Encamp-  ^^^^^^  j^^^  ^^at  he  might  at  once  help  to  constitute  a  new  Encampment. 
PetUions  of  October  31st,  1845,  the  petitions  of  Companions  J.  W.  S  Mitchell  and  James 
T.  W.  S.  ZantBlaney  were  received  among  others,  appropriately  referred,  the  two 

t^^t  elected,  and  Companion  Mitchell  constituted  a  Knight  of  .he  Red  Cross;  and 
'^"""7         constituted,  created  and  dubbed  a  Knight  Templar,  Knight  of  Malta  of  the 


Order  of  Sts,  John  of  Jerusalem. 

At  the  Conclave  held  November  14th  of  the  same  year.  Companion  James 
Van  Zant  Blaney  was  constituted  a  Knight  of  the  Red  Cross  ;  and  at  the  sub- 
sequent  Conclave,  held  December  26th.  1845,  he  received  the  Order  of  the 
Temple  and  Malta  in  due  and  ancient  form.  And  so  on  might  the  list  be  con- 
tinued by  the  historians  in  the  announcement  of  the  names  of  Sir  Knights,  who 
themselves  by  acts  have  covered  the  Templar  history  of  the  West  with 
imperishable  and  unfading  luster.  Let  it  suffice,  however,  for  them  to  remind 
the  reader  that  Apollo  Encampment,  JSo.  i  had  a  wide  Jurisdiction,  owed  no 
•  allecTiance  to  any  Body  save  the  Grand  Encampment,  had  power  which  no  sub- 
Junsdiaion.  ordinate  Commandery  now  possesses,  and  that  among  the  names  of  other  dis- 
tinauished  Sir  Knights  who  received  the  Orders  of  Knighthood  m  the  Body 
prior  to  the  year  A.  D  i860,  can  be  found  the  following  :    Sirs  Frederick 


knighted. 


Apollo 
Er.campment 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Augustus  Bryan,  Mason  Brayman,  Hart  La  Luch.  Stewart,  John  Herman  Bird, 
Benjamin  Taylor  Kavanaugh,  Harmon  Gansevoort  Reynolds,  Lewis  Carpenter 
Ellsworth,  Belden  Farrand  Culver,  Daniel  Hess,  George  Davis,  Henry  Winants 
Bigelow,  James  Augustus  Marshall,  Edwin  Ruthven  Harmon,  John  Varnum 
Ayer,  James  Young  Sanger,  Joseph  Filkins,  John  Birch  King,  Theodore  S. 
Parvin,  Hosmer  Allen  Johnson,  George  Waite  Deering,  Nelson  Daniel  El  wood, 
Reuben  Cleveland,  Norman  Weird,  James  K.  Botsford,  Wiley  Michael  Egan, 
James  Edward  Dallibar  and  Lockwood  Keeler  Osborne. 

Of  all  the  companions  who  were  knighted  during  the  incumbency  of  Most     -p^g  gj^. 
Excellent  Grand  Commanders  William  Frederick  Walker  and  John  Roman  ^"/f^^'^^^^ll^ 
Case  (from  May,  1845,  up  to  and  including  the  year  1852),  only  Sir  Knights  prior  to  1853, 
Charles  Ranney  Vandercook,  Enoch  Bunker  Stevens  and  James  McNair  are  still  members  or 
members,  and  for  aught  known  to  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery,  in  whoarealive. 
addition  to  the  three  last  Sir  Knights  named,  only  Sirs  Charles  Follansbee,  F.  A. 
Bryant,  B.  F,  Culver,  L.  C.  Ellsworth,  Daniel  Hess,  James  A.  Marshall,  E.  R. 
Harmon,  Theo.  S.  Parvin,  H.  A.  Johnson,  Geo.  W.  Deering,  James  K.  Bots- 
ford and  Wiley  M.  Egan  are  alive  to-day.    The  first  two  Commanders  are  The  first  two 
dead.    Past      Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander "  Walker,  U.   D.,  once  e™s"deadl 
Rector  of  St.  James  Episcopal  Church  of  this  city,  died  far  away,  and  Past 
"  Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  "  John  Roman  Case  died  at  Elmhurst, 
Ills. ,  surrounded  by  loving  children  and  friends.    His  funeral  was  attended 
by  his  eighteenth  successor  as  Eminent  Commander  and  only  a  few  Sir  Knights 
of  Apollo;  it  being  the  request  of  his  friends  that  his  burial  ceremonies  should 
be  simple  and  unostentatious.    Almost  all  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  that  early  day 
have  laid  aside  the  burdens  of  this  life,  and  from  the  other  shore  sing  the  songs 
of  the  past  and  we  hope  the  songs  of  the  redeemed. 

Weird  minstrelsy, 

That  lifts  the  soul  up  from  the  earth. 

Where  song  long  ages  past  had  birth  ; 
Where  melody 

The  heart  of  worship  first  began. 

What  heavenly  thrill,  what  visions  bright 
Awoke  to  voice  the  soul  of  man 

When  to  the  earth  she  took  her  flight. 

The  years  have  gone  ; 

The  song,  the  laugh  and  kindly  word  : 

The  hope,  the  dream,  half  whisper  heard, 
Sometimes  forlorn  ; 
Yet  never  song  more  sweetly  rang. 

Intoned  to  heart  more  weird-like  note 
Since  stars  on  earth's  first  morning  sang, 

Than  thought  on  mem'ries  lyre  provoke. 

It  seems  that  our  Fraters  of  the  long  ago  had  financial  problems  to  deal  with 
which  affected  the  weal  of  the  Encampment  as  well  as  those  who  followed 
them;  the  Records  exhibiting  the  fact  that  at  the  Conclave  held  December 
I2th,  1845,  it  was  voted  to  issue  four  hundred  and  ninety  dollai-s'  worth  of  Scrip  author 
scrip,  in  bills  of  twenty-seven  and  fifty  one-hundredths  dollars,  to  be  sold  for 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Sirs  Vander-  not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  each,  the  proceeds  to  be  applied  towards  paying 
Bigelowap-  debts  contracted  on  account  of  fitting  up  their  new  hall;  and  that  a  corn- 
pointed  a  mittee  consisting  of  Sir  Charles  Ranney  Vandercook  and  Henry  Winants 
subscription  °                           .                                                      .     ^      -i  r 
committee.  Bigelow  was  subsequently  appointed  to  indiscriminately  solicit  funds  for  the 

purpose  of  paying  the  debts  of  the  Encampment. 

Festival  of  evening  of  June  24th,  1847,  the  Body  convened  to  keep  ''The  Fes- 

St.Johnkept.  tival  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,"  in  honor  of  Craft  Masonry,  and  listened  to  an 

eloquent  address  prepared  by  Sir  James  A.  McDougal. 

Apollo  Encampment,  No.  i  *'  Knight  Templars  "  continued  to  work  U.  D. 

with  varyincr  vicissitudes  until  the  first  period  in  its  existence  was  reached: 
November  jo  ^  ' 

1847,  returns  when,  November  6th,  1847,  it  made  returns  to  the  General  Grand  Encamp- 

G^^an'^d  En-  ^nent  exhibiting  a  roster  of  thirty-eight  Sir  Knights,  and  showing  a  gain  in  mem- 
campment.     bership  since  the  20th  of  May,  1845,  of  twenty-eight,  and  such  other  evidences 
of  faithfulness  as  were  required ;  besides  forwarding  the  dues  of  the  Body, 
amounting  to  $86.50. 

The  historians  of  the  Commandery  have  been  able  to  gather  only  a  very 
Most  Excel-  indefinite  knowledge  of  the  career  of  "  Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  " 
Rev^WiUiam  William  Frederick  Walker,  Commander  U.  D.  of  Apollo  Encampment,  and  it 
Frederick  j^^g  been  very  difficult  indeed  to  obtain  any  information  which  could  be  made 
of  use  herein.  He  was  at  the  early  day  which  interests  us,  Rector  of  St.  James 
Episcopal  Church;  and  all  with  whom  we  have  conversed,  agree  that  he  was  a 
profound  Scholar,  an  eloquent  Preacher,  a  learned  Mason,  and  a  warm-hearted, 
sympathetic  man.  His  love  for  the  Institution  of  Free  Masonry  seemed  to  be 
unbounded  ;  and  his  heart -erudition  relative  to  the  chivalric  functions  between 
Templars  beside,  was  made  manifest  upon  many  memorable  occasions.  The 
oldest  surviving  Sir  Knight  of  Apollo,  as  well  as  his  wife,  lovingly  relate  the 
circumstance  of  how  Eminent  Sir  Walker,  when  the  Sir  Knight  was  ill,  used 
to  come  daily  to  minister  to  his  comfort  and  pray  fervently  for  his  recovery,  and 
they  assert  in  the  most  positive  manner,  that  at  that  day  no  better  man  or  mason 
ever  existed.  He  led  Apollo  No.  \,  step  by  step  U.  D.  up  to  the  fruition  of  the 
Charter.  His  labor  then,  is  our  reward  now  !  Who  knows  what  circumstances 
moulded  his  subsequent  career?  What  shock  occurred  to  his  affections,  that 
made  his  warm  heart  seek  solace  in  habits  which  dulled  its  sorrow  and  beclouded 
his  intellect  ?  "  There  is  a  Church  of  Grief  whose  members  deeply  and  tend- 
erly know  each  other,"  and  are  none  of  its  members  within  the  ranks  of 
Apollo  Commandery  ! 


NO,   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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CHAPTER  II. 


A.  D.   1S48  TO  A.  D.    1855,  INCLUSIVE. 

At  the  Regular  Convocation  held  December  loth,  1847,  "  Most  Excellent  r^^^  receipt 

Grand  Commander,"  John  Roman  Case  informed  the  Sir  Knights  present,  that  a  of  ^  charter 

announced 

perpetual  Charter  bearing  date  September  17th,  A.  D.  1847,  A.  O.  729  had  been  Dec.  10, 1847. 

received  from  the  General  Grand  Encampment,  which  was  granted  at  the  City 

of  Columbus,  State  of  Ohio,  and  signed  by  Charles  Gilman,  General  Grand 

Recorder .   The  Charter  was  then  read.   On  motion,  the  ' '  Encampment  resolved 

itself  into  a  Committee  of  the  Whole  lor  the  purpose  of  electing  Officers."  The 

following  were  the  first  officers  under  the  Charter :  officers 

°  elected  under 

Most  Excellent  Sir  John  Roman  Case,  Grand  Commander.  the  charter. 

Em.  Sir  Samuel  Hoard,  Generalissimo. 

Em.  Sir  Charles  Robert  Starkweather,  Captain  General. 

■  Sir  George  Davis,  Prelate.  1 

Sir  Nathan  C.  Geer,  Senior  Warden. 

Sir  James  Augustus  Marshall,  Junior  Warden. 

Sir  Charles  Follansbee,  Treasurer. 

Sir  John  Herman  Bird,  Recorder. 

Sir  William  Henry  Davis,  Standard  Bearer. 

Sir  Henry  Winants  Bigelow,  Sword  Bearer. 

Sir  G.  B.  Fearing,  Warder. 

Sir  J.  L.  Thompson,  Sentinel. 

The  Committee  then  rose,  reported  progress,  the  report  was  received,  and  the  The  com- 
1      •  /-    -1  1      1  o  i  mittee  arose 

election  ratmed  by  the  Encampment.  and  reported 

On  Thursday  Evening,  January  20th,  1848,  at  half  past  six  o'clock  the  public  P'^^sress. 

Consecration  and  Installation  ceremonies  of  the  Encampment  took  place,  under  Consecration 

and  installa- 

the  direction  of  Acting  Deputy  General  Grand  Master  Benjamin  Taylor  Kav-  tion  cere- 

anaugh  presiding,  assisted  by  Sir  James  Van  Zant  Blaney,  Grand  Marshall,  Sir  '''^°"'^^* 

George  Davis,  Grand  Prelate,  and  Sir  John  Herman  Bird,  Grand  Recorder,  in 

the  presence  of  the  Grand  Officers,  Officers  elect,  Sir  Knights  and  an  "  intelligent 

and  respectable  audience." 

Most  Excellent  Sir  John  Roman  Case,  the  first  Commander  under  the  Charter  ^^^^  ^-^ 

was  four  times  consecutively  re-elected.    At  no  one  of  the  Annual  Conclaves  John  Roman 

Case  At- 

were  there  more  than  eleven  Sir  Knights  present,  to-wit :  Dec.  22d,  1848,  eight,  tendance  and 
Dec.  14th,  1849,  seven,  Dec.  13th,  1850,  eleven,  and  January  9th,  1852,  ten.  incidents. 
From  Dec.  14th,  1849  until  Dec.  13th,  1850,  no  Conclave  was  held  or  work  done 
The  Annual  Conclave  which  should  have  been  held  December  26th,  185 1,  was 
postponed  until  January  gih,  1852,  only  seven  Sir  Knights  being  present;  and 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


at  the  postponed  meeting  only  ten  Sir  Knights  were  present.  It  may  seem  to 
the  reader  very  peculiar  that  circumstances  could  exist  which  would  so  far  affect 
the  Encampment  as  to  prevent  a  single  Conclave  from  being  held  from  one 
Annual  to  the  time  of  holding  another,  one  year  ;  and  strange  that  it  was  quite 
impossible  to  have  enough  Sir  Knights  in  attendance  to  hold  the  annual  meeting 
without  postponement  the  subsequent  year.  And  yet,  if  such  is  the  impression 
at  first,  a  good  second  thought  will  lead  one  to  determine  to  the  contrary.  The 
City  of  Chicago  was  not  a  city  then  of  600,000  souls,  but  instead  was  a  small 
frontier  town,  of  a  frontier  state,  with  a  sparsely  settled  population  of  only  a 
few  hundreds,  who  were  compelled  to  do  valiant  service  for  their  daily  bread. 
There  were  no  Sir  Knights  of  elegant  leisure  then,  but  instead,  the  members  of 
the  Encampment,  residents  of  Chicago,  other  States  and  Territories,  and  remote 
Cities  in  Illinois,  were  endeavoring  to  make  the  wilderness  habitable  for  them- 
selves and  families,  when  the  "  vine  and  fig  tree  "  which  they  had  planted  with 
their  own  hands  should  take  root,  so  that  they  and  their  progeny  might  sit  be- 
neath their  shade  in  the  future  and  cast  their  eyes  over  the  prairies  "blossoming 
That  there  like  a  rose."  That  there  was  a  quorum  so  often,  is  the  only  marvelous  fact, 
aT^ail^^mar^  unless  it  be  that  any  Sir  Knight  could  be  found  to  perform  the  duties  of  Com- 
velous!  mander. 

During  Most  Excellent  Sir  Case's  administration  the  Order  of  the  Temple 
was  conferred  upon  twenty-two  !  Numerically  but  few,  yet  although  so- few,  the 
number  is  made  up  of  some  of  the  most  distinguished  and  illustrious  Knights 
Templar  this  or  any  other  State  has  produced. 
Canal  April  14th,  A.  D.  1848,  the  Encampment  participated  in  the  General  Canal 

celebration,  celebration. 

Peution  of     October  4th,  A.  D.  1849,  the  Petition  of  Sir  Knights  of  Peoria  asking  the 
orPeor^.  ^    General  Grand  Encampment  for  a  Dispensation  to  form  another  Encampment, 
was  read  in  Regular  Conclave  and  concurred  in. 

At  the  Conclave  held  March  15th,  A.  D.  r85i,  it  having  become  previously 
known  that  Sir  George  Davis,  the  Most  Excellent  Prelate  of  the  Encampment^ 
resohittons"^  was  to  move  away  from  Chicago,  a  series  of  resolutions  were  unanimously 
in  honor  of  adopted  expressive  of  the  regret  of  the  Body;  and  on  motion  of  Sir  James 
Van  Zant  Blaney,  the  Sir  Knights  went  without  ceremony  to  Sir  Knight  Martin 
Dodge's  to  partake  of  the  supper  there  provided  in  his  honor;  where  a  pleasant 
hour  was  spent  in  an  interchange  of  warm,  heart-felt  fraternal  greetings. 

Inconsequential  as  the  administration  of  Most  Excellent  Sir  John  Roman 
Case  may  seem  to  the  casual  observer,  viewed  in  the  strong  light  of  some  glit- 
tering generality  achievements,  to  the  student  of  effects  it  is  apparent  that  the 
true  cause  of  the  substantial  building  up  of  the  reputation  of  Apollo  Encamp- 
Holdino-to-  i^^ent,  comes  from  his  holding  together  formative  processes,  and  his  own  prudent 
ifve'^^^oc'^^'  sterling  qualities  of  character.    The  beginnings  of  all  finite  achievements  are 
es,  by  Most  small.    The  fittest  may  survive  perchance,  but  it  will  grow  distorted  in  form, 
R^cfase"!°^"  unpleasant  to  the  gaze  and  unworthy  of  emulation  unless  it  has  been  tended  by 
the  possessors  of  heart  and  mind.    Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  John 
Roman  Case  and  his  Fratres  had  both;  and  Apollo  Encampment  and' her  Sir 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Knights  although  equipped  with  wooden  swords ;  seated  at  Red  Cross  banquets  °' 
where  the  best  viands  consisted  of  red  herring,  crackers  and  cheese;  and  where  and  water, 
the     Nectar  fit  for  the  Gods  "  was  drawn  fresh  from  the  barrel  in  which  it  was  gf^. 
brought  from  Lake  Michigan,  bore  a  name  untarnished;  a  blade  unsullied ;  a 
hospitality  free  and  grand ;  and  hearts  as  chivalric  as  any  the  world  has  ever 
known.    The  sure  foundations  for  an  honorable  future  were  being  well  pre- 
pared and  Apollo  Commandery  No.  I,  Knights  Templar  of  to-day,  would  not 
exist  were  it  not  for  the  labor  and  loving  sacrifices  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  that 
remote  day  of  the  past. 

The  Encampment  during  the  year  1853,  and  the  incumbency  of  Most  Excel-  qJ^J^^^e^^ 
lent  Grand  Commander  Reuben  Tayler,  had  an  uneventful  existence,  save  that  Sir  Reuben 
the  formative  processes  continued ;  and  the  excellent  Frater  is  entitled  to  grate-  a^^^^iSss, 
ful  memories  from  all  the  Sir  Knights  of  the  Commandery  surviving  him.  The 
Eminent  Sir  Knight  himself,  lived  a  correct  and  honorable  life,  and  was  a  good 
citizen,  a  devout  christian  and  peacefully  rests  after  a  toilsome  and  praise- 
worthy career. 

Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  James  Van  Zant  Blaney  succeeded  Sir 
Reuben  Tayler,  and  with  his  advent  new  impetus  was  given  to  the  Encampment. 

At  the  Regular  Conclave  held  February  24th,  1854,  it  was  voted  that  no  ^  ^g^^ 
Sir  Knight  should  sit  in  the  Asylum  or  vote  within  sixty  days  after  that  date  Equipments 
unless  equipped,  save  by  unanimous  consent,  and  from  this  action  dates  the  worn  in  the 
very  first  era  of  expression  relative  to  the  wearing  of  uniform  equipments  by  Asylum, 
the  Sir  Knights  of  the  Encampment. 

The  ceremonies  pertaining  to  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  the  new  Ma-  of°'^"he  ^^^a- 

sonic  Temple,  on  the  East  side  of  Dearborn  Street,  between  "Washington  and  sonic  Temple 
..         .  .     ,       ,      ^  o-ir>        on  Dearborn 

Randolph  streets,  were  participated  m  by  the  Encampment  May  18th,  I054.  street  laid. 

During  the  year  the  fiscal  affairs  of  the  Encampment  were  well  managed,  the 
discipline  improved,  and  the  Orders  conferred  upon  fifteen. 

Of  Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  James  Van  Zant  Blaney' s  services  and  g.^^o^t  Ex. 
Masonic  and  Civil  career  it  is  difficult  to  write.    How  can  one  measure  a  dis-  Van  Zant 
tant  star  without  instruments  ?     Who  can  look  at  a  blazing  sun  with  the  naked  fj^v^ces  and 
eye  without  concern  ?    A  brilliant  pupil  of  Aesculapius ;  and  possessor  of  gen-  career, 
ius  which  drew  inspiration  from  the  heart  of  Science  and  voiced  in  burning 
words  the  wealth  of  love  he  had  within  himself  for  the  Maker  of  all,  and  his 
fellow  fratres.     What  loving  acts  he  performed,  what  deeds  he  wrought  ! 
"Each  man  can  judge  of  other  men  only  in  the  light  and  with  the  aid  of  the 
data  he  carries  in  himself,"  and  hence  how  few  there  are  who  can  compass  the 
full  measure  of  the  des^  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  James  Van  Zant  Blaney  when  he 
stood  a  peer,  or  realize  him  in  reverse.    Scholar  among  Scholars;  Conversation- 
alist among  Conversationalists;  brilliant,  sparkling,  erudite  and  warm-hearted; 
sympathetic  as  a  man,  a  citizen,  a  physician,  a  scientist  and  a  Knight  Templar. 
He  held  exalted  Masonic  offices  and  honored  them,  instead  of  they  honoring 
him.    Past  Most  Excellent  Commander  of  Apollo  Encampment,  Past  Right 
Eminent  and  First  Grand  Commander  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois, 
and  Past  Right  Eminent  Grand  Captain  General  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


the  U.  S.  A.,  he  was  an  honor  to  this  State  in  the  varied  positions  which  he 
held.  We  are  constrained  to  quote  from  his  first  Annual  report  as  Right  Emi- 
nent Grand  Commander,  for  the  double  purpose  of  showing  upon  what  firm 
ground  he  sought  to  have  Templar  Masonry  build,  and  to  express  the  hope  that 
he  now  enjoys  above  the  grand  felicities  which  he  bespoke  for  his  listeners,  in 
the  loving  prayer  with  which  he  closed  his  fine  address. 
.  "  Let  us  with  one  accord  join  in  grateful  thanks  to  our  Heavenly  Father,  that  of  the  Illustrious 

from°  his°an-  Sir  Knights,  who  were  present  and  took  part  in  the  organization  of  this  Grand  Commandery  a 
nual  address  year  ago,  not  one  has  been  struck  from  the  roll  of  human  existence,  and  called  to  appear  before 
G  ^  C^"^'  ^"^^  J^dge.  Let  us,  Sir  Knights,  with  meekness  and  humility,  as  becometh  poor  soldiers  of 
mander  Cross,  recognize  in  this  a  dispensation  of  mercy  far  exceeding  our  merits,  and  be  thereby  in- 

cited  to  constant  and  renewed  efforts  to  render  ourselves  acceptable  in  the  sight  of  our  Saviour, 
and  blameless  before  our  God.  Let  us  as  professed  Knights  of  a  Christian  Order,  travel  with  pa- 
tience and  perseverance  the  pilgrimage  of  life ;  with  constancy  and  courage  let  us  endure  its  trials 
and  difficulties,  that  at  the  last,  with  penitence  and  meek  submission,  we  may  yield  ourselves  to 
the  dread  mandate  which  commands  us  to  pass  the  dark  veil  of  Death,  cheered  by  the  hope  that 
we  may  be  permitted  there  to  seal  our  faith,  and  be  admitted  to  full  membership  in  the  Asylum  of 
the  blest.  Such,  Sir  Knights,  should  :ever  be  theeffortof  each  andevery  one  of  us,  or  our  pro- 
fessions are  but  hypocritical  such  should  be  our  desires,  or  our  solemn  ceremonies  are  but  mum- 
meries ;  such  should  be  our  hope,  or  our  Order  is  useless.  Oh  !  that  I  had  the  power  of  eloquence 
to  impress  these  truths,  not  only  upon  the  hearts  of  all  within  the  sound  of  my  voice,  but  that  the 
echo  might  reach  to  the  utmost  limits  where  a  Knight  of  our  Order  exists,  and  the  answer  return, 
we  believe  those  truths  and  our  lives  shall  exhibit  their  divine  influence  !  I  could  dwell  longer, 
Sir  Knights,  upon  such  themes,  feeling  as  I  do  so  strongly  the  importance  of  a  fuller  appreciation 
by  its  members  of  the  sublime  teachings  of  our  Ritual,  but  that  I  hope  this  suggestion  only  is  re- 
quired, and  will  promptly  meet  a  response  in  your  hearts.  ****** 

May  I  indulge,  the  hope  that  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois  may  ever  be  an  example  of 
loyalty  and  devotion  to  the  supreme  head  of  the  Order  ;  may  its  Beauseant  ever  display  on  its 
pure  white  band  a  true  emblem  of  the  purity  of  its  members,  and  may  its  black  strike  terror  and 
confusion  to  all  who  would  dare  ruthlessly  to  prostrate  in  the  dust  the  revered  cross  upon  her  ban- 
ner. Sir  Knights,  I  shall  ever  bear  in  my  heart  the  memory  of  the  kindness  and  courtesy  which 
I  have  received  at  your  hands,  and  my  ardent  prayer  shall  ever  be  that  we  may  all  meet,  at  last, 
in  that  Grand  Conclave,  which,  at  the  call  of  the  Grand  Warder  of  Heaven,  will  assemble  around 
the  throne  of  the  Lamb." 

*'  No  further  seek  his  merits  to  disclose. 

Or  draw  his  frailties  from  their  dread  abode ; 

There  they  alike  in  trembling  hope  repose. — 
The  bosom  of  his  Father  and  his  God." 

Most  Excel-  At  the  Annual  and  Stated  Conclave  held  December  22d,  1854,  Most  Excel- 
lent Sir  John  1    ^  c^j.  John  Herman  Bird  was  elected  Grand  Commander. 

HermanBird  •'  •        ^  .  .     .  ,  a-i^o 

electedGrand  The  Encampment  durmg  the  year  of  his  incumbency— A.  D.  1855— pros- 
Commander,  p^^^^         g^^g  ^.^         comfort  to  others. 

At  the  Conclave  held  February  23d,  A.  D.  1855,  A.  O.  737,  a  communication 
Petitionfrom  was  received  from  Sir  Theodore  S.  Parvin  asking  the  Encampment  to  recom- 
SirT.S.Par-  ^  the  petition  of  Sirs  Parvin,  Reynolds,  a/.,  to  the  General  Grand 
vm,  et  ai., to  ^  ^  ■» t  •  t 

form  a  new  Encampment  for  permission  to  form  a  new  Encampment  at  Muscatine,  Iowa, 

Slowa^"''  to  be  named  De  Molay  Encampment ;  which  request  was  granted.  The  Fees 
orders%^?^  for  the  Orders  were  also  increased  at  this  Conclave  to  Forty  Dollars  and  during 

this  administration  seven  received  the  Orders. 
Most  Ex.  Sir     Most  Excellent  Sir  John  Herman  Bird  received  the  Order  of  Knighthood, 
J.^  H.  Bird,  pg|^j.^^j.y  22d,  1847,  during  the  administration  of  Most  Excellent  Sir  William 


NO,   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


13 


Frederick  Walker,  while  the  Encampment  was  working  U.  D.,  and  was  one  of 
the  prime  factors  for  its  advancement. 

He  was  staunch  to  the  Body  in  its  weakness,  and  had  the  felicity  of  seeing  it 
advance  toward  a  position  among  the  peers  in  the  galaxy  of  Templary.  No 
man  needs  a  prouder  epitaph  then  to  have  it  written  in  his  memory,  that  he  was 
one  of  the  few  first  Sir  Knights  of  the  Encampment,  and  its  fourth  Most  Excel- 
lent Grand  Commander.  He  sleeps  his  last  unbroken  slumber,  but  the  work  of 
his  hands,  heart  and  brain  survive  him  in  the  prosperous  existence  of  the  Com- 
mandery  he  did  so  much  to  enrich  by  the  exercise  of  Knightly  qualities. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


CHAPTER  III. 


A.  D.  1856  TO  A.  D.  1 86 1,  INCLUSIVE. 


Admlnistra-     After  the  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Encampment/held  December  14th,  A.  D, 

tion  of  Most  ^  T-in  ^j 

Ex.SirThos.  1855,  the  aggressive  and  prosperous  administration  of  Most  Excellent  Grand 
lun!'^^         Commander,  Thomas  Shirley  commenced. 
^  .  .      r     At  the  Regular  Conclave  of  Friday,  Tune  27th,  1856,  the  petition  of  Sirs  W. 

Petition  01  =>  J    ^  '  7  ^,--,1 

Harman  G.  L.  Crane,  Harman  G.  Reynolds  and  C.  B.  Stebbins  a/.,  to  the  General  Grand 
ftcrfor^n  Encampment  for  an  Encampment  at  Peoria,  111.,  was  concurred  in  and  recom^ 
Encamp-  mended. 

Peoria.  July  3d,  the  members  of  the  Encampment,  equipped,  visited  Camp  Dear- 

Camp  Dear-  ^^j.^       invitation  of  Capt.  Cleveland,  of  the  Chicago  Dragoons,  and  July 

born  visited.  ^  '  ...  j      •  i 

4th,  on  invitation  of  Col.  Davis,  Apollo  No.  I,  fully  equipped  m  accord  with 
that  day  regulations,  visited  Union  Park,  escorted  by  Co.  A,  National  Guards, 
Apollo  No.  I  under  command  of  Capt.  Olmsted.    Col.  Davis  honored  Apollo  Encampment 
honored.       ^^^^  ^^.^  occasion  by  assigning  it  to  the  right  of  the  Washington  Independent 
Regiment. 

Petition  for  At  the  Conclavc  held  July  17th,  1856,  the  petition  of  Sirs  Horace  Tuttle, 
menfat^I^wa  L.  P.  Frost  and  A.  O.  Fairchild     a/.,  for  an  Encampment  at  Iowa  City,  Iowa, 

City,  Iowa,   ^   ^  known  as  Palestine  Encampment,  was  duly  and  heartily  concurred  in,  and 
recommend- 
ed, the  prayer  of  the  petitioners  recommended. 

Fees  for  the     July  25th,  at  the  Stated  Conclave,  the  fees  for  the  Orders  were  raised  to 
ord^ers  raised  sgventy-five  dollars;  thirty-five  for  the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  forty  for 
the  Order  of  the  Temple. 

The  progress  made  by  the  Encampment  had  been  so  great  under  the  two  last 
preceding  administrations,  but  particularly  during  the  present  one  of  Grand 
Commander  Shirley,  that  they  had  been  endued  with  sufficient  courage  to 
undertake  important  affairs;  and,  at  the  Conclave  held  August  3d,  1856,  on 
Grand  En-  ^^^^-q^       g^j.  Charles  Robert  Starkweather,  it  was  voted  to  invite  the  General 

C3.ITiplTlCnt 

invited  to      Grand  Encampment  to  hold  its  next  session  at  Chicago. 

Chicago.  During  the  year  Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  Thomas  Shirley  had 

Twenty-five  conferred  the  Orders  upon  twenty-five ;  had  husbanded  the  resources  of  the 
durfng'^fhe  Body  so  that  the  Treasury  was  replenished ;  had  promoted  the  discipline  in  the 
year,  etc.  Encampment;  and  had  made  a  brilliant  Asylum  and  public  record.  During 
the  year  the  Encampment  had  also  dispensed  charity  with  a  lavish  hand ,  ex- 
ercised unbounded  hospitality;  thrown  its  fostering  arms  around  weaker 
Encampments,  bespeaking  for  them  success,  and  giving  them  fresh  courage  for 
new  endeavors.    With  such  a  record  Sir  Thomas  Shirley  surrendered  the 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


15 


position  he  had  filled  so  well,  at  the  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Encampment, 
held  December  12th,  1856,  to  that  peer  among  peers,  Sir  Hosmer  Allen 
Johnson 

Most  Excellent  Sir  Thomas  Shirley  was  a  man  of  strong  characteristics.  A  Most  Ex.  Sir 
lawyer  by  profession,  and,  in  the  regular  practice  of  his  profession,  his  mind  Shirley, 
was  schooled  to  grasp  the  salient  points  for  an  aggressive  onward  movement 
for  the  Encampment  over  which  he  was  called  to  preside,  and  the  course  to  be 
taken  when  once  made  plain  to  him,  was  pursued  to  an  advantageous  result. 
Probably  there  is  due  to  his  administration  quite  as  much  credit  for  the  con- 
tinued progress  of  the  Body  financially  as  to  any  Commander,  he  having  dem- 
onstrated the  feasibility  of  increasing  the  fees  for  the  Orders  almost  one 
hundred  per  cent.  The  increased  fee  adopted  during  his  incumbency, — A.  D. 
1856 — has  not  been  advanced  since,  although  twenty-eight  years  have  elapsed. 

Men,  in  the  exuberance  of  early  manhood,  when  the  hot  blood  surge 
through  the  veins,  may  be  led  to  act  when  passivity  should  be  the  rule  instead 
One  moment  of  indulgence  when  the  mind  has  ceased  to  coolly  and  thoroughly 
dominate,  may  cause  a  life  of  regret  so  deep  that  none  but  the  victim  and  God 
can  compass  it.  Repentance,  for  long  years,  infrequently  fails  to  heal  the 
wounds. 

"  Alas  for  the  rarity 
Of  Christian  charity 
Under  the  sun." 

Friends  estranged ;  Fraters  divided  by  justice.  Cannot  mercy  justify  for- 
giveness after  repentance,  or  must  former  relationships  be  forever  severed,  and 
sympathy  alone  remain. 

"  Errors  liice  straws  upon  the  surface  flow 
He  who  would  search  for  pearls  must  dive  below.'' 

The  administration  of  Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  Hosmer  Allen     The  En- 
Johnson  was  an  eventful  one,  not  alone  to  the  Encampment  over  which  he  was  JS^Most 
called  to  preside,  but  more  especially  was  it  fraught  with  import  to  Templary  in 
the  State  of  Illinois,  as  will  be  subsequently  developed.  aI'd.^iSsj 

At  the  Regular  Stated  Conclave,  held  Friday  evening,  January  9th,  1857,  in  Name 
conformity  with  instructions  received  from  the  General  Grand  Encampment,  from  En- 
the  name  of  the  Body  was  changed  from  Apollo  Encampment,  No.  i   to  that  campment 
of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar,  and  the  title  of  the  com-  Sand°e?y. 
manding  officer  from  that  of  Most  Excellent  Grand  Commander  to  that  of 
Eminent  Commander;  and,  on  motion  of  Sir  Enoch  Bunker  Stevens,  at  the  r^j^^ 
Conclave  held  January  23d,  1857,  the  time  of  holding  Stated  Regular  Conclaves  holding  stlt- 
was  changed  from  the  second  and  fourth  Fridays  of  each  month  to  the  first  and  l%T^nd^^^ 
third  Tuesdays,  thereby  adopting  enactments  which  have  stood  for  the  govern-  J'''^ 
ment  of  the  Commandery  as  to  name  and  week  night  for  holding  Regular  Con- 
clay.es  for  twenty-seven  years,  save  in  a  single  instance  only. 

It  was  voted  "  That  our  Eminent  Commander  be  empowered  to  take  the 
initiatory  steps  towards  forming  a  Grand  Commandery  in  this  State,"  at  the     To  form  a 
Regular  Stated  Conclave  of  the  Commandery,  convened  March  3d,  A.'d.  1857.  SLndtr?'"' 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Cornerstone  Saturday,  July  4th,  the  Commandery  participated  in  the  ceremonies  inci- 
varsity  of"''  dent  to  laying  the  corner-stone  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  located  at  Cottage 
Chicago  laid.  Q^^^^ 

— now  Cottage  Grove  avenue  and  Thirty-fourth  street. 
^  ^      Eminent  Commander  Hosmer  Allen  Johnson,  in  pursuance  of  and  by 

eiy  opened     authority  of  the  powers  granted  him  by  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights 
forrn^t?^       Templar,  took  all  the  required  steps  to  form  a  Grand  Commandery  for  the  State 
G^^'d^C^m  °^  Illinois;  and  "Agreeably  to  a  call  of  the  several  Commanderies  of  the  State, 
mandery.      for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  for  the 
State  of  Illinois ;  by  order  of  Most  Excellent  Sir  William  Blackstone  Hub- 
bard, Grand  Master,  a  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  was  opened  in  ample 
form.  Eminent  Sir  Hosmer  Allen  Johnson  presiding." 

The  object  of  the  meeting  of  the  delegates  from  the  various  Commanderies 
and^ele?tion  ^^ving  been  stated,  by  virtue  of  due  authority,  the  Grand  Commandery  of  the 
of  Sir  J.V.  Z.  State  of  Illinois  was  formed,  the  constitution  and  by-laws  adopted  and  officers 
Em?  Grand*'  elected.    Eminent  Sir  James  Van  Zant  Blaney,  who  was  knighted  in  Apollo 
Commander.  Encampment  by  Most  Excellent  Sir  John  Roman  Case,  December  26th,  1845, 
was  elected  the  first  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander,  and  Eminent  Sir 
Hosmer  Allen  Johnson,  the  then  Eminent  Commander  of  the  same  Com- 
mandery, the  first  Grand  Captain  General. 

The  work  delegated  to  the  Eminent  Commander  by  Apollo  Commandery 
was  thus  duly  accomplished  and  the  names  of  the  two  distinguished  Sir  Knights 
last  mentioned  were  thereby  indissolubly  wedded  in  the  annals  of  Templar 
Masonry  for  the  State  of  Illinois  by  one  of  the  most  momentous  of  events. 
Eminent  Sir  Hosmer  Allen  Johnson  had  earned,  by  noble  deeds,  all  the 

c-  TT  honors  which  had  been  bestowed  upon  him  as  well  as  he  merited  those  which 
Em.  birHos-  i        •   l      r    i.     1  4- 

mer  Allen     he  subsequently  received ;  and  hence  could  wear  them  by  right  ot  absolute, 

Johnson,  etc.  ^-^^^^^i  modest  worth.    As  a  Physician  he  has  ever  been  the  equal  of  the  best. 

As  a  Citizen  he  has  been  honored  and  esteemed ;  and  as  a  Mason  and  Knight 

Templar  admired.    His  Masonic  career  is  well  known  to  many.    Either  as  the 

third  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  the  State,  or  Active  33°,  Sovereign 

Grand  Inspector  A.-.  A.-.  A.'.  S.-.  R.-.,  there  has  been  no  position  but  what  he 

has  honored,  and  he  has  left  no  duty  unfulfilled.    He  is  a  man  of  scholarly 

culture  in  the  broadest  sense  of  the  word,  because  his  culture  is  not  confined 

alone  to  the  mind,  but  includes  the  heart  also.     Incisive  and  keen  in  methods, 

words  and  strength  were  never  wasted.    Filled  with  sympathy  for  those  who 

suffered  either  in  body  or  mind,  he  has  been  a  minister  to  relieve  the  ailments 

of  both.    By  the  innate  fires  of  a  strong  individuality  he  may  have  stood  at 

times  a  hermit  among  a  minority  of  his  brethren,  over  whom  he  has  been  called 

to  preside,  because  of  an  aspiration  for  the  good  which  elevated  him  far  above 

the  pettishness  and  narrowness  of  those  whose  minds  were  gnarled  and  dwarfed. 

But  yet  that  he  always  succeeds  in  maintaining  his  hold  upon  the  aff"ections  of 

the  Fraters  with  whom  he  has  once  come  intimately  in  contact  was  evinced  in 

1865,  (eight  years  after  his  incumbency  as  Eminent  Commander  and  during  the 

administration  of  Eminent  Sir  Benjamin  Franklin  Patrick),  when  he,  being 

broken  down  in  health  and  desirous  of  going  to  Europe,  was  presented  by  Apollo 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Command ery  and  other  Masonic  Bodies,  with  a  purse  containing  two  thousand 
and  fifty-four  dollars  as  a  mark  of  good  will,  and  as  a  token  of  appreciation 
for  his  distinguished  services. 

No  more  fitting  way  of  exhibiting  the  real  worth  of  the  man  can  be  found 
than  that  of  quoting  from  his  second  Annual  Report  as  Right  Eminent  Grand 
Commander,  at  the  close  of  his  incumbency  : 

"  Sir  Knights,  I  thank  you  for  the  many  expressions  of  your  confidence  which  I  have  received,  j^o^'^'is°  s 
and  I  trust  I  shall  ever  retain  in  grateful  remembrance  your  many  acts  of  kindness  to  me.    Since  on'd^annuar' 
my  first  Knightly  vows  I  have  endeavored  to  serve  faithfully  the  Order.    For  two  successive  years  report  as 
I  have  presided  over  your  deliberations,  and  since  the  organization  of  this  Grand  Commandery,  I  ^^^^^  Corn- 
have  had  a  seat  in  your  Grand  East.    Sir  Knights  again  from  the  fullness  of  my  heart,  I  thank  ^^'^ 
you,  and  may  the  Almighty  Father,  who  is  a  strong  tower  of  defense  to  all  those  who  put  their 
trust  in  Him,  be  the  support  and  salvation  to  us  all." 

With  the  administration  of  Eminent  Sir  Johnson  ended  the  first  epoch  of  End  of  the 
Apollo  Commandery,  and  whatever  of  reputation  has  been  obtained  since,  is  fhfcom-'^°* 
owing  principally  to  the  substantial  foundation  laid  by  himself  and  those  who  "'^"^^'"y- 
preceded  him. 

At  the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  ist,  1857,  the  work  of  administ  ering  Cornmence- 
the  affairs  of  Apollo  Commandery  devolved  upon  Eminent  Sir  William  Wallace  ZTold 
Mitchell,  whose  term  of  office  continued  for  two  years,  he  being  re-elected  at  epoch,  A.  D. 
the  Annual  Conclave  succeeding  his  first  election,  held  December  7th,  1858. 

The  petitions  of  Sir  Knights  to  the  Grand  Commandery  for  dispensations  to  Petitions  of 
form  and  open  Commanderies  at  Joliet  and  Morris,  Illinois,  were  received  at  the  of  Jdiefand 
Conclave  held  on  December  1st,  1857,  and  duly  recommended;  and  at  the  ^^oms,  111. 
Stated  Conclave  of  October  19th,  1858,  in  acsord  with  the  previously  extended 
invitation  to  the  Grand  Encampment  to  hold  its  session  in  Chicago,  it  was  re- 
solved to  recommend  to  the  Grand  Commandery  that  the  hospitalities  extended 
to  the  members  on  the  occasion  of  the  Triennial  meeting,  September  12th,  1859,  Programme 
should  consist  of,  free  use  of  carriages,  a  railroad  excursion,  a  supply  of  daily  SgtheGmnd 
papers  and  refreshments  at  the  Hail,  and  a  Banquet;  and  at  the  Stated  Con-  ^em^s'ep- 
clave  held  July  5th,  on  motion  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  James  Van  Zant  Blaney,  tem"ber,  1859. 
Grand  Commander,  a  Committee  of  Arrangements  was  appointed,  for  the  re-  Committee 
ception  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  consisting  of  Eminent  Sirs  William  Wallace  ^PP^'^^^d. 
Mitchell,  Hosmer  Allen  Johnson  and  Sirs  Robert  Harris  Foss,  Charles  Robert 
Starkweather,  George  Waite  Deering,  Laurin  Palmer  Hilliard,  Henry  Winants 
Bigelow,  Eliphaz  Warner  Jones,  William  Train  Muir,  Enoch  Bunker  Stevens, 
James  Edward  Dalliba,  A.  A.  Putnam,  William  Harbron  Turner,  Henry  Collings 
Ranney  and  George  Ralph  Eckley. 

Monday  evening,  January  31st,  1859,  Apollo  Commandery  attended  the  lec-  Lecture 
ture  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  James  Van  Zant  Blaney,  and  February  22d,  joined 
in  the  parade  in  honor  of  Washington's  birth  day.    In  both  instances  they  parade, 
appeared  equipped. 

June  24th  of  the  same  year  the  Commandery  made  a  pilgrimage  to  Aurora,  Pilgrimage 
Illinois,  to  assist  in  the  dedication  of  Aurora  Lodge  Room.  ^°  Aurora. 

A  Conclave  of  the  Commandery  held  September  9th,  1859,  to  attend  Summoned 
which  the  members  were  summoned,  caused  Thirty-five  Sir  Knights  to  assemble  Conclave, 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


The  Most   at  the  Asylum.    From  thence  they  proceeded  to  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
Graild  Mas-  Depot,  where  with  due  courtesy  and  honor  they  received  Most  Eminent  Sir 
ter  received,  William  Blackstone  Hubbard,  Grand  Master  of  Knights  Templar  of  U.  S.  A,, 
ficatiJn^f     whom  they  escorted  to  his  tent;  then  returned  to  their  Asylum,  and  subsequently 
exemplified  the  Templar  Ritual  before  members  of  the  Grand  Encampment 
and  visiting  Sir  Knights. 

It  would  afford  the  historians  of  the  Commandery  great  pleasure  if  data 
dltl^^'^^^^^  could  be  gathered  which  would  permit  the  writing  of  a  summary  of  the  acts 
of  the  Commandery  during  this  Triennial  Conclave ;  but  it  has  been  impossible 
to  gather  any  for  such  purpose.    The  "  Grand  Commandery  Proceedings,"  are 
silent ;  no  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Grand  Encampment  for  that  year 
could  be  had,  none  being  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  Grand  Recorder  or  to  be 
found  elsewhere  in  the  City  as  far  as  we  are  informed.    We  have  been  enabled 
The  banquet,  to  ascertain,  however,  that  the  Banquet  was  a  brilliant  one ;  that  the  speeches 
were  all  that  the  most  proud  Sir  Knight  would  wish  them ;  and  that  Apollo  Com- 
Annual        mandery  sustained  her  high  reputation  for  soldierly  appearance  and  hospitality, 
meet'ing,  The  arduous  duties  of  Eminent  Sir  William  Wallace  Mitchell  were  ended  at 

Deerfng  the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  6th,  1859,  when  Eminent  Sir  George 
suSed^Em  Waite  Deering  was  elected  to  succeed  him. 

Sir  Mitchell'.     Eminent  Sir  William  Wallace  Mitchell  was  anything  but  a  drone  in  the  Com- 
Em.SirWil-  mandery.    No  Commander  ever  worked  harder  than  he  did  to  advance  the 
MiTchlll       military  discipline  of  the  Commandery,  and  improve  both  the  methods  of  con- 
ferring the  Orders,  and  the  correctness  of  the  Officers  in  the  Ritual.    Of  pre- 
possessing address,  and  the  possessor  of  marked  executive  ability,  his  labors  had  a 
decidedly  beneficial  result  upon  the  Commandery  relative  to  the  matters  referred 
The  first  to  to.    He  was  the  first  Eminent  Commander  to  formulate  Templar  Tactics  for 
Tempt?  ^    the  use  of  the  Templar  Bodies  of  this  State.    They  were  approved  and  pro- 
Tactics,  etc.  n^uigated  by  the  Grand  Commandery,  and  presented  for  like  approval  to  the 
Grand  Encampment.    Eminent  Sir  Mitchell  was  a  genial  and  cheery  Sir  Knight, 
and  having  been  Knighted  March  29th,  1856,  in  the  Commandery  over  which 
he  was  called  to  preside,  was  acquainted  with  the  history  and  traditions  con- 
cerning it.    His  services  to  Apollo  Commandery  can  never  be  forgotten  !  If 
he  had  an  enemy  it  was  himself.    In  a  fit  of  mental  abberation  he  fell  from  a 
window  of  the  Sherman  House  and  his  mortal  life  was  ended.    What  a  laby- 
rinthian  wonder-land  of  cause  and  effect  is  the  immeasureable  past  ! 

Alas,  alas,  great  past  ! 
The  harp  lies  mute,  the  music  from  the  strings  hath  fled. 
And  sorrow's  kiss  hath  sought  the  eyelids  of  the  dead  ; 
Too  soon  hath  grief  resumed  the  voice  of  hopes  new  bliss 
And  lulled  the  sense  of  loss  with  life's  forgetfulness. 

Alas,  alas,  great  past  ! 
Some  remember  a  hand  which  they  cannot  now  feel  ; 
A  voice  which  with  kindness  was  wont  to  appeal. 
Oh  !  moments  that  have  gone  with  the  pitiless  years 
What  have  you  left  them  but  their  grief  and  their  tears, 

Alas,  alas,  great  past. 


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The  year  i860  was  eventful  by  reason  of  political  animosities,  and  during  the 
year  1861  the  great  civil  war  began  and  thousands  took  upon  themselves  the 
hardships  of  bivouac  and  field.  The  tap  of  the  drum  marshalled  heroes  under 
another  banner  than  the  black  and  white  Beauseant,  and  the  warder's  bugle 
blast  was  drowned  by  the  roar  of  cannon  and  the  shriek  of  shell  and  shot. 
The  administration  of  Eminent  Sir  Deering,  besides,  so  immediately  succeeded 
the  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  that  the  somniferous  lethargy 
which  succeeds  that  event  made  the  task  in  hand  more  difficult,  hence  no  es- 
pecially eventful  incidents  in  which  the  Commandery  was  a  part,  come 
within  the  scope  of  the  chronicler  for  the  two  years  of  his  incumbency,  and 
there  is  nothing  to  record  upon  this  brief  historical  page  save  the  fact  that,  eventful  inci- 
notwithstanding  lassitude  and  war,  thirteen  received  the  Orders  of  Knighthood  chronicle  for 
at  his  hands ;  and  that  lot  number  eight  at  Rose  Hill  Cemetery  was  purchased  'wo  years, 
in  accordance  with  a  vote  of  the  Commandery  at  a  Stated  Conclave  held 
January  24th,  i860;  that  the  Fraters  of  Apollo  No.  i,  for  whom  no  other  pro- 
vision should  have  been  made,  could  have  a  peaceful  resting  place  after  life's 
fitful  fever  was  over. 

Eminent  Sir  Deering,  was  of  good  ability  and  address,  and  commenced  an  Commence- 
incumbency  which  began  and  continued  during  a  very  trying  period.    He  |^cumbenc^^ 
possessed  the  necessary  qualifications  to  hold  fast  to  the  purposes  of  the  Com-  of  Em.  Sir 
mandery;  carry  on  the  work;  dispense  hospitality;  evenly  govern  the  Body;  Deerfn^fo? 
cement  the  fraternal  relations  existing  between  its  members  and  others  with  whom  -^-^  ^- 
they  came  in  contact ;  and  in  nowise  retard  the  advancement  of  the  Body  over 
which  he  presided.   Eminent  Sir  Deering  held  the  office  of  Commander  during 
the  years  i860  and  1861,  and  subsequently  held  the  distinguished  office  of  Right 
Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  Illinois. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


CHAPTER  IV. 


A.  D.    1862  TO  A.   D.    1870,  INCLUSIVE. 


Sir  Henry 
CollingsRan- 
ney  elected 
Em.  Com- 
mander, etc. 


The  smoke 
of  battle. 


Em.  Sir 
Henry  Ceil- 
ings Ranney. 


At  the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  3rd,  1861,  Sir  Henry  Collings 
Ranney  was  elected  to  fill  the  office  of  Eminent  Commander  for  the  year  1862. 
The  Council  of  the  Commandery  for  this  year  was  composed  of  Sir  Knights, 
two  of  whom  subsequently  became  Eminent  Commanders  of  Apollo ;  two, 
future  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commanders  of  the  State  of  Illinois ;  and  one, 
Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States 
of  America. 

Eminent  Sir  Ranney  assumed  the  duties  of  his  office  when  the  smoke  of 
battle  was  still  rolling  back  from  many  a  bloody  field  of  carnage,  that  was 
sprinkled  and  rendered  hallowed  by  fraternal  blood.  Apprehension  and  the 
gloom  of  war  hung  like  a  brooding  spirit  over  the  land,  and  he  could  only  hope 
to  hold  fast,  preserve  the  financial  credit  of  the  Body,  and  maintain  it  in  the 
exalted  position  which  it  had  won.    He  succeeded  in  doing  this  ! 

To  right  growing  wrongs,  and  prevent  a  cumulation  of  disastrous  conse- 
quences, it  is  often  necessary  that  there  shall  be  found  a  man  of  strong  will, 
positive  characteristics  and  courage,  who  has  enough  of  fortitude  to  place  his 
"mailed  hand"  upon  the  brazen  shield  of  error  and  cry  a  halt.  Eminent  Sir 
Knight  Henry  Collings  Ranney  was  such  a  man,  and  impressed  his  character 
upon  the  Commandery  for  its  then  present,  and  future  benefit ;  and  when  this  is 
said  it  means  much.  He  had  an  opinion  upon  subjects  which  came  within  his 
jurisdiction,  and  was  not  afraid  to  express  himself  if  duty  demanded  it.  He 
was  no  admirer  of  subterfuges  and  shams,  and  never  felt  a  compunction  about 
their  exposure,  and  verily  was  a  Knight  to  dare  and  do.  Above  reproach  in 
his  personal  life;  a  true  Christian  gentlemen;  a  good  husband  and  father;  of 
fastidious  moral  convictions;  cultured  in  all  the  varied  pursuits  of  life;  of 
superb  mind,  generous  heart,  true  to  right,  an  implacable  foe  to  evil,  honest  to 
his  friends,  combating  his  enemies  without  vindictiveness ;  learned  in  the  tenets 
and  law  of  Masonry,  of  sound  judgment  and  commanding  presence,  he  could 
not  help  but  give  a  healthier  tone  to  any  body  over  which  he  should  be  called 
to  preside.  "Mediocrity  need  not  search  for  sympathizers;  they  swarm. 
Originality  may  seek  widely  and  long,  but  in  vain,  for  the  equal  love  it  desires." 
Eminent  Sir  Henry  Collings  Ranney  was  original  and  scorned  the  plumes  of 
the  borrower;  and  as  the  inferior  hates  the  superior,  whom  by  reason  of 
mediocrity,  he  is  unable  to  appreciate,  so  there  is  a  mystical  brotherhood  unit- 
ing the  self-sacrificing,  great  souled  ones  of  the  present,  as  well  as  for  all  ages. 
He  is  of  those  having  a  great  soul. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  21 


His  fitness  apparent,  he  was  subsequently  elected  Right  Eminent  Grand 
Commander  of  Illinois ;  and  as  Past  Grand  Commander  in  both  the  Grand 
Commandery  and  Grand  Encampment,  as  Chairman  or  as  a  member  of  the 
Judiciary  Committee,  he  has  rendered  such  signal  service  to  Templarism  that 
he  certainly  has  been  and  is  an  honor  to  the  State;  and  we  believe  has  been 
the  author  of  as  much  healthy  legislation  for  the  benefit  of  Templary  as  any  Sir 
Knight  who  has  ever  resided  within  this  Grand  Jurisdiction,  and  Apollo  Com- 
mandery has  reason  to  feel  proud  that  he  has  represented  her  in  the  distinguished 
positions  which  he  has  filled. 

At  the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  2d,  1862,  Sir  Vincent  Lumbard  The  incum- 
Hurlbut  was  elected  Eminent  Commander;  and  was  re-elected  December  ist,  Skvlncen^' 
1863.  The  advent  of  this  Eminent  Sir  Knight  was  characterized  by  renewed  ^"''^b^t- 
vitality  and  progress, 

September  ist,  1863,  the  Commandery  participated  in  the  ceremonies  of  lay-     ™t!  PaSf's 
ing  the  corner  stone  of  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Hyde  Park,  Illinois,  on  invitation  Syde  pSk 
of  Most  Worshipful  F.  M.  Blair,  Grand  Master  of  Masons,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  1^'^- 
of  Illinois;  and  October  27th  of  the  same  year  gave  a  grand  banquet  at  the  g^r'''^''^' 
Briggs'  House,  corner  Randolph  and  La  Salle  Streets,  to  the  Grand  Command-  banquet  to 
ery  of  Illinois.  Sander?"- 

Saturday  September  loth,  1864,  Apollo  Commandery  fell  in  as  escort  to  the  Participate 
Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  of  Illinois,  and  participated  in  SlayfnTcol 
the  ceremonies  of  laying  the  corner  stone  of  the  new  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Ch'ambeT  of 
on  the  South  East  corner  of  Washington  and  La  Salle  Streets;  on  February  Commerce. 
4th  of  that  year  gave  the  first  Annual  Festival  of  the  Commandery,  and  October  Annual  Fes- 
25th  exemplified  the  Templar  Ritual  before  the  members  of  the  Grand  Com- 
mandery  and  visiting  Sir  Knights;  after  the  completion  of  which,  the  Grand  exemplified. 
Commandery  and  visiting  Sir  Knights  were  escorted  to  the  second  banquet  Second  ban- 
given  m  honor  of  the  Grand  Commandery  during  the  first  incumbency  of  the  ^^^"oGrand 
Eminent  Sir  Knight  Commander.  Commandery. 

The  banquet  was  elegant;  appointments  superb;  with  a  Menu  fit  for  any 
body  of  men;  and  the  literary  part  of  the  night's  entertainment  was  not 
unworthy  the  occasion. 

On  the  6th  of  November,  1864,  the  Commandery  participated  in  the  sorrow-  Commandery 
ful  pageant  and  funeral  ceremonies  of  General  Ransom,  with  other  Masonic  r'^^t 
and  Military  organizations.  som's  fime'ral. 

Daring  the  two  years  just  past  the  Commandery  had  prospered,  fifty  had  re-  Fifty  knight- 
ceived  the  Orders;  the  treasury  had  been  replenished;  and  renewed  courage  '''' 
had  been  infused  into  the  membership. 

At  the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  6th,  1864,  Eminent  Sir  Benjamin  ^m.  Sir  Pat- 
Franklin  Patrick  was  elected  as  successor  to  Eminent  Sir  Hurlbut  under  favoring  luoctsToT' 
auspices.    He  was  twice  re-elected  but  served  only  during  the  years  1865 
and  1866,  declining  the  office  for  the  year  1867.  Apollo  Com- 

Monday,  May  ist,  1865,  at  9  o'clock  A.  m.,  Apollo  Commandery,  in  presence  tTcipateffie 
of  a  vast  concourse  of  sorrowing  citizens,  took  her  place  in  that  sad  procession  mSsoTth'e 
formed  to  receive  the  remains  of  the  late  President  Abraham  Lincoln  at  Park  i^tePresi- 

'  dent  Lincoln. 


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Row,  preparatory  to  escorting  the  hearse  containing  the  precious  clay  to  the 
Court  House,  where  the  body  was  to  lie  in  state. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  January  6th,  1866,  petitions  of  Sir  Knights  ask- 
Petitions  to  jng  dispensations  to  form  two  new  Commanderies  in  the  City  of  Chicago,  were 
CommJnder- recommended  and  concurred  in;  one  of  which  was  signed  by  Sirs  Wiley 
iesin  Chi-  ^  ^jichael  Egan  and  George  Gardner,  et  al.,  asking  for  a  Commandery  for  the 
5ed°in':°"'''''""  West  side  o'f  Chicago,  to  be  called  Chicago  Commandery,  and  the  other  signed  by 
Sirs  George  W.  Wood,  H.  C.  Hunt.  C.  R.  P.  Wentworth,  etal.,  asking  for  a 
Commandery  on  the  North  side  of  Chicago. 
Reception  of  Wednesday  evening,  September  5th,  1866,  Apollo  Commandery  fell  in, 
marched  to  the  Depot,  received  the  Sir  Knights  of  Detroit  and  Kalamazoo 


Sir  Knights 
of  Detroit 
and  Kals 


Commanderies  and  escorted  them  to  their  hotel  to  rest  (?)  preparatory  to  the 
SerSr*  ceremonies  of  laying  the  corner  stone  of  the  Douglas  Monument  the  following 
uts^^''^  day ;  and  Saturday  the  6th  inst  at  half  past  seven  o'clock  A.  M.,  the  Command. 
Palmer  marched  to  the  Milwaukee  Depot,  and  escorted  Most  Eminent  Sir  Knight 

wfsconsin  Henry  L.  Palmer  and  the  Sir  Knights  of  Wisconsin  Commandery  from  thence 
Templars.  ^^^.^  designated  hour  reformed  to  serve  as  escort  to  the 

Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  with  the  visiting  Com- 
manderies  and  Sir  Knights  proceeded  to  the  site  of  the  Douglas  Monument, 
corner  Douglas  and  Lake  Avenues;  and  after  the  ceremonies  of  laying  the 
Cornerstone  corner  stone  were  concluded,  took  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  train  back  to 
MonumS    the  city;  reformed;  escorted  the  various  visiting  bodies  of  Masons  to  their re- 

spective  hotels,  and  then  repaired  to  its  Asylum. 
Eighth-three     Ei^^hty-three  had  received  the  Orders  during  the  two  years  Eminent  Sir  Pat- 
olZl!^"    rick  had  been  Commander  and  he  could  approach  the  close  of  his  term  of  office 
with  honor.    In  number  of  accessions  to  the  membership  no  administration 
which  had  preceded  his  had  in  any  way  approached  it. 
Em.  Sir  Pat-     At  the  Annual  meeting  held  December  ^ih,  1866,  he  was  re-elected  and 
rick  present-  p^^gg^^g^  ^^^^h  a  beautiful  Past  Commanders  Jewel  as  a  mark  of  esteem  and  as 
a  slight  token  of  appreciation  for  the  marvellous  services  which  he  had  rendered. 
He  "eceived  the  Jewel  with  thankfulness  but  positively  and  emphatically 
declined  to  serve  another  year  as  Commander,  whereupon  Eminent  Sir  Vincent 
Lumbard  Hurlbut  was  again  elected  to  the  office. 

No  one  could  have  been  a  more  generous  and  hospitable  Templar  than  was 
Eminent  Sir  Benjamin  Franklin  Patrick.  His  hand  was  ever  extended  to  sue 
cor  a  needv  one.  His  genial  words  were  always  provocative  of  good  fellow- 
ship and  fraterrity;  and  he  was  a  correct,  graceful  and  impressive  Ritualist 
which  made  his  conferring  of  the  Orders  a  pleasure.  Popularity  found  a  syn- 
onym in  him;  and  his  down  right  genuine  good-heartedness, but  lack  of  firm- 
ness  in  one  particular,  created  him  to  be  his  own  worst  enemy ;  still  he  will 
always  be  remembered  to  have  been  one  of  the  most  successful  and  briUiant 
Commanders  Apollo  Commandery  has  ever  had  in  her  history.  Our  eyes  are 
filled  with  "  drops  that  sacred  pity  hath  engendered." 


ed  with  a 
jewel,  etc 


KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  23 


Eminent  Sir  Knight  Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut  was  succeeded  at  the  close  of  jj^^'^'^ 
his  first  regime  by  a  brilliant  successor;  and  commenced  his  second  admin-  gins  his  sec- 


ond incum- 
bency. 


istration  only  to  renew  his  own  no  less  successful  one. 

July  3d,  1867,  Apollo  Commandery  made  a  pilgrimage  to  Detroit,  Michigan,  Pilgrimage 
on  invitation  of  Detroit  Commandery  No.  I  of  that  city,  where  they  partici-  Micbf'™'^' 
pated  in  the  ceremony  of  laying  the  corner  stone  of  the  Sailor's  and  Soldier's 
Monument,  July  4th.    The  visit  was  a  memorable  one  and  the  friendship  made 
between  the  two  Commanderies  at  that  time  continues  in  undiminished  vigor  to 
this  day. 

Much  had  been  done  for,  and  by  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i  Knights  Temp-  Em  Sir  Vin- 
lar  during  the  successive  administrations  of  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Hurlbut,  bl?d  ilurlbut. 
which  beyond  question  was  worthy  of  his  honest  pride;  and  he  could,  with  just 
self-congratulation  vacate  the  office  for  his  successor.  He  had  also  but  recently 
been  elected  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander,  and  was,  unknown  to  himself, 
soon  to  take  the  first  step  towards  that  greatest  of  all  offices  in  the  gift  of 
Templarism.  The  Records  of  Apollo  Commandery  exhibit  the  fact  that  Em- 
inent Sir  Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut  was  an  extraordinarily  successful  Com- 
mander ! 

Apollo  Commandery,  also,  can  modestly  and  with  becoming  dignity,  feel 
gratified  that  such  distinguished  Knights  Templar  Bodies  as  the  Grand  Com- 
mandery of  Illinois  and  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States  of 
America  found  sufficient  merit  in  one  of  her  Sir  Knights,  to  first,  elect  him  as 
Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  Illinois  and  finally,  to  elect  him  to  the 
supreme  Templar  office  of  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Encamp- 
ment of  Knights  Templar. 

Eminent  Sir  Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney  succeeded  Eminent  Sir  Vincent  Lum-     Em.  Sir 
bard  Hurlbut,  and  continued  to  serve  during  the  years  1868  and  1869.    Under  ^edTzm!^' 
his  wise  leadership  Apollo  Commandery  steadily  increased  in  numbers  and  fo^t^e  years 
progressed  in  every  way.  1868,  etc. 

It  attended  St.  John's  Day  celebration  at  Aurora,  Kane  county,  Illinois,     Attend  St. 

A.  D.  1868,  and  at  the  Stated  Conclave,  held  July  2d  of  that  year,  the  escort  Jeieb/atlo?! 

of  the  Commandery  was  tendered  Right  Eminent  Sir  Vincent  Lumbard  Hurl-  at  Aurora. 

but,  Grand  Commander  of  Illinois,  to  and  from  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  while 

attending  the  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  commencing 

September  15th,  1868.  The  escort  was  accepted,  and  Apollo  Commandery,  to  EscortGrand 
1  1         r         1       -I     1        1  ^  1      ,  .  Commander 

the  number  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five,  made  the  pilgrimage  at  the  time  Hurlbut  to 

named  under  command  of  Eminent  Sir  Gurney,    To  only  say  that  the  pilgrim- 

age  was  a  successful  one  would  hardly  do  justice  to  all  concerned  in  it.  Apollo 

Commandery  No.  I  was  the  only  Commandery  fully  equipped  in  accordance  Apollo  Com- 

with  the  requirements  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  on  the  day  of  parade,  and,  Se^TriennLl 

with  one  hundred  and  sixteen  swords  in  line,  presented  such  a  soldierly  appear-  Conclave  of 

.  ....  the  Grand 

ance,  that  they  merited  the  consideration  given  tnem  by  Templars,  citizens  and  Encampment 

daily  press.    The  hospitality  of  the  hosts  at  St.  Louis  cannot  be  forgotten,  and 

was  as  fir  as  possible  reciprocated  by  Apollo  Commandery  at  the  Southern 

Hotel,  and  it  is  imagined  that  the  rendezvous  of  the  "  Spiders  "  in  room  174  The  Spiders. 


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Joliet  Com- 

mandery 

visited. 


Officers  and 
Loyal  Sir 
Knights  of 
Apollo  Com- 
mandery. 

Em.  Sir 
Brower  elect 
ed  as  suc- 
cessor. 

Em.  Sir 
Theodore 
TuthiU 
Gurney. 


will  not  fail  to  be  a  lasting  memory  with  very  many  of  our  St.  Louis  Fraters, 
The  Commandery  having  met  such  warm  friends  and  such  a  right  glad  wel- 
come at  St.  Louis,  it  returned  home,  holding  the  Fraters  of  that  city  in  very 
great  esteem  ;  and  with  the  reputation  of  Apollo  Commandery  and  the  Eminent 
Commander  very  much  enhanced. 

September  2d,  1868,  Joliet  Commandery  was  visited  at  Joliet,  Illinois. 

At  the  Annual  Conclave,  Apollo  Commandery  determined  to  omit  giving  the 
accustomed  annual  festivals  for  the  future. 

The  second  year  of  the  incumbency  of  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Gurney  was 
quite  unlike  one  which  generally  succeeds  a  Triennial  Conclave.  There  was 
no  diminution  of  active,  enterprising  labor;  the  esprit  du  corps  oi  Xht  Com- 
mandery was  maintained,  and  thirty-three  received  the  Orders. 

It  is  not  improper  for  us  to  say  that  the  sterling  qualities,  organizing  abilities 
and  lovable  characteristics  of  the  Commander,  augmented  by  a  painstaking 
corps  of  officers  and  loyal  Sir  Knights,  was  conducive  of  such  a  result.  With 
a  Commandery  as  prosperous  as  any ;  peer  with  the  proudest ;  and  with  a  mem- 
bership of  three  hundred  and  fourteen,  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Gurney  was  relieved 
by  Eminent  Sir  Charles  Homan  Brower  after  the  Annual  Conclave,  which  was 
held  December  7th,  1869,  from  the  great  responsibilities  of  the  exalted  station 
he  had  held  in  the  Commandery. 

Of  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney  it  can  be  justly  said  that 
he  is  in  every  way  an  exemplary  Templar ;  and  by  exemplary  we  mean,  in  the 
broadest  sense,  that  he  is  a  model  that  any  may  feel  proud  to  copy.  We  do 
not  mean  to  say  that  he  is  infallible  and  never  makes  mistakes,  because  we 
know  he  does.  But  whatever  mistakes  he  does  make,  either  in  law  or  fact,  are 
in  consequence  of  his  honest  convictions.  We  have  no  intent  to  laud  or  flatter, 
but  are  profoundly  cognizant  of  the  correctness  of  the  assertion  that  a  state- 
ment of  the  truth  cannot  justly  be  esteemed  as  flattery  ;  and  that  the  historian 
who  omits  to  give  full  credit  for  services  rendered;  the  possession  of  lauda- 
ble personal  characteristics;  morality;  mental  capacity  and  innate  goodness ; 
commits  a  crime  of  which  we  do  not,  in  this  instance,  intend  to  be  guilty. 

The  truth  of  the  history  of  Apollo  Commandery  demands  that  we  say,  that 
Eminent  Sir  Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney  was  the  possessor  of  characteristics 
which  endeared  him  to  the  Sir  Knights  while  he  was  in  command;  that  he 
inspired  sufficient  enthusiasm  to  foster  all  that  was  inherently  good  in  the  Com- 
mandery, and  check  that  which  was  bad ;  and  cause  it  to  steadily  advance  step 
by  step  to  the  most  exalted  endeavor.  As  a  logical  reasoner,  good  ;  as  a  true 
friend,  to  be  depended  upon;  as  a  citizen,  above  just  reproach;  as  a  Masonic 
officer,  a  peer  with  any  who  preceded  or  succeeded  him  ;  as  a  Masonic  writer, 
among  the  best;  as  a  business  man,  honest;  as  a  husband  and  father,  kind 
and  judicious;  hence,  who  would  expect  that  he  would  fall  short  of  what  he 
has  proven  himself  to  have  been  ;  one  of  the  very  best  Most  Worshipful  Grand 
Masters  of  the  Grand  Lodge  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  and  Right  Eminent  Grand  Com- 
mander's of  the  State  of  Illinois,  which  those  Bodies  have  ever  had. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  25 


*         *  *  *  Perchance 

There  can  be  found,  some  men,  who  meet  him  In 
The  daily  walks  of  life,  who  fail  to  know 
His  purity,  or  realize  his  strength 
Of  mind  ;  and  never  probe  his  inner  depths 
Of  soul.    What  matters  it  ?    All  cannot  drink 
The  same  delightful  draught  from  Nature's  fount 
That  some  men  can,  or  have  an  ear  attuned 
To  catch  the  low  and  plaintive  melody 
Tiiat  swells  into  distinctive  minor  tones 
Amid  the  jarring  discords  of  the  world. 

Engaged  with  most 
The  earnest  cares  of  life ;  glad  toiler  for 
His  wife,  his  children,  and  his  peaceful  home, 
He  seeks  alone  to  know,  that  he  has  done 
His  duty  to  his  neighbor  and  his  God, 
And  earned  an  honored  name  for  his  old  age. 

Eminent  Sir  Charles  Homan  Brower  commenced  his  administration  for  the  Em.  Sir 

^  ,  ,  .  Brower  as- 

year  1870  under  the  most  favorable  auspices,  and  conductea  it  under  similar  sumesthe 

duties  of  of- 

ones.  ficefor  1870. 

August  25th,  1870,  Apollo  accompanied  Chicago  Commandery,  No.  19,  to 

Plymouth,  Indiana,  where  both  commands  participated  in  the  ceremonies  of  mandery 

laying  the  corner  stone  of  the  new  Court  House  in  that  city,  and  September  loth  ^^^^^^  j^^J'^ 

of  the  same  year  gave  a  pic-nic  at  Kenwood  Station ;  upon  which  occasion  has  a  pic-nic 
,  .,  .  .        ,  ...        ,  ,  \.  ,  .  ^         and  an  exhi- 

the  Commandery  gave  an  exhibition  drill  under  command  of  the  Eminent  Com-  bition  drill. 

mander,  its  most  accomplished  tactician. 

During  the  year  Eminent  Sir  Brower  conferred  the  Orders  upon  thirty-five;  Thirty-five 
and  serene  and  hospitable  Conclaves  were  enjoyed.  kmghted. 

Who  is  there  among  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  who  has  not  a 
warm  place  in  his  heart  for  Past  Eminent  Commander  and  Past  Grand  Captain  ^.^ 
General  Charles  Homan  Brower  ?  Transparent,  without  malice,  and  ever  Brower,  etc. 
good  hearted  Brower  !  Temporarily  wrong  sometimes,  and  emphatically  ag- 
gressive, we  yet  believe  him,  without  a  thought  to  do  another  an  injury.  How 
many  a  kindly  word  has  he  lavished  in  sympathy  for  the  ills  of  others  !  How 
many  a  weary  hour  has  he  toiled  to  arouse  the  chivalric  military  spirit  of  the 
Commandery,  and  urged  the  Sir  Knights  onward  to  proficiency  in  drill.  How 
often  has  he  ministered  to  the  pride  of  the  Sir  Knights  by  exercise  of  the  wily 
address  of  the  tactician,  to  cover  faults  from  the  observer  and  make  exhibition 
of  their  excellences.  At  Detroit,  Michigan,  in  1867;  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  in 
1868;  and  Baltimore,  Maryland,  in  1871,  where  the  Commandery  gained  so 
much  honor  in  processional  parades,  how  much  of  that  honor  is  due  to  genial, 
painstaking  Sir  Charles  Homan  Brower  ? 

The  Records  of  the  Commandery  are  filled  with  obituaries  which  he  has 
written;  and  beautiful  Memorial  pages  which  he  conceived,  and  which  his  deft 
fingers  executed.  Ill  almost  to  death,  he  still  from  time  to  time  comes  back  to 
the  Asylum,  to  be  among  the  Sir  Knights  he  loves  ;  and  who,  that  was  present, 
will  fail  to  remember  the  impression  made  as  he  delivered  the  Templar  charge 
to  Sir  William  A.  Stiles,  June  26th,  1883,  when,  overcoming  bodily  infirmities, 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


with  graceful  mien  and  electrifying  glance,  the  old-time  Brower  flashed  out, 
and  how  deep  feeling  provoked  in  him  a  huskiness  of  voice  and  wet  eyes,  or 
how  his  own  deep  emotion  met  the  sympathetic  response  of  like  emotion  from 
all  present.  Once  asked,  *'how  many  Templars  have  you  in  Apollo  Com- 
mandery,  Eminent  Sir  Brower?  "  he  answered,  seventy-five."  The  question- 
ing Sir  Knight  replied,  "  why,  I  thought  Apollo  Commandery  had  nearly  three 
hundred  and  fifty  members  !  "  Oh  !  said  Eminent  Sir  Brower,  ^'■members 
you  mean ;  we  have  about  that  number  of  members,  whom  I  hope  will  grow 
in  time  to  be  so  excellent  in  character  that  the  seventy-five  Templars  will  have 
accessions." 

A  true  soldier  of  the  Cross;  a  Christian  man ;  a  chivalric  Knight ;  too  gener- 
ous to  be  continually  rich,  he  was  a  husbander  of  every  social  attribute  to  make 
the  Asylum  of  the  Commandery  a  joy  to  the  visitor,  and  although  in  every 
essential  he  may  not  be  esteemed  to  have  been  a  great  Commander,  we  are  led 
to  wonder,  when  the  Commandery  will  ever  find  his  like  again;  "  and  though 
the  past  haunt  us  like  a  spirit,  yet  ask  us  not  to  forget  him." 


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CHAPTER  V. 

A.  D.  1871  TO  A.  D.  1873,  INCLUSIVE. 

Em.  Sir 

Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers  was  elected  to  succeed  him  December  6th  Eugene  B. 

**  Myers 
1870.  elected 

At  a  Stated  Conclave  held  April  18th,  1871,  a  committee  was  duly  appointed 
to  consider  the  feasibility  of  the  Commandery  attending  the  Triennial  Conclave  nial  at  Baiti- 
of  the  Grand  Encampment  which  would  convene  in  the  City  of  Baltimore, 
Maryland,  in  the  following  month  of  September,  which  resulted  in  a  deter, 
mination  to  go.  .  ^^^^ 

At  the  Stated  Conclave,  August  15th,  187 1,  a  communication  was  received  Commandery. 
from   St.  Johns  Commandery  No.  4,  of  Philadelphia,  tendering  Knightly 
hospitalities  to  Apollo  Commandery  during  its  visit  to  that  city  on  its  way  to 
Baltimore.    The  hospitalities  were  accepted. 

July  28th,  1871,  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  William  Sewall  Gardner  ^P°5er5°"" 
designated  Apollo  Commandery  as  escort  or  body  guard  to  the  Grand  Encamp-  selected^  as 
ment  during  the  Eighteenth  Triennial  Conclave,  to  be  held  at  Baltimore,  com-  g^^or  to  the 
mencing  September  19th,  1871.     Henceforward  for  weeks  there  was  nothing  Mo^st  Em. 
but  bustle  and  drill.    A  great  degree  of  proficiency  was  the  result  •  and  in  due  Master, 
season,  Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers  and  sixty  Sir  Knights  with  Vaas' 
Light  Guard  Band,  started  on  their  brilliant  pilgrimage  to  Baltimore,  receiving 
on  the  journey,  ovation  after  ovation ;  and  upon  arrival  marching  under  escort  The  journey, 
to  Barnum's  Hotel  where  the  headquarters  of  Apollo  Commandery  were  duly 
established. 

At  II  o'clock  Thursday,  September  21st,  the  lines  being  formed  for  inspec- 
tion and  review,  ''the  Grand  Encampment  of  Knights  Templar  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  with  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i  of  Chicago,  Eminent  Sir 
Eugene  Burritt  Myers  Eminent  Commander  (detailed  by  the  Right  Eminent 
Grand  Commander  of  Illinois)  acting  as  Guard  of  Honor,  was  then  escorted  Escorted 
from  headquarters  at  Barnum's  Hotel  to  the  corner  of  Baltimore  Street  and  J^^^i'ters 
Broadway,  by  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Maryland,  under  command  of  Right  at  Barnum's 
Eminent  Sir  Charles  H.  Mann,  Grand  Commander."  All  things  being  in  readi- 
ness the  advance  was  sounded  along  the  lines,  "  the  divisions  moved  out  of 
Broadway  into  Baltimore  Street  in  sections."     During  the  march  Apollo  Com- 
mandery executed  some  brilliant  movements;  forming  triangles,  single  and  Brilliant  mil- 
double  crosses,  and  "  exciting  the  admiration  of  the  spectators  who  vented  their  ^^^""^ 
feelings  in  loud  cheers  and  the  waving  of  handkerchiefs,"    The  entire  route 
over  which  the  procession  passed  was  one  mass  of  human  beings,  and  the  five 
thousand  Knights  in  column,  it  is  estimated,  "  were  reviewed  "  by  upwards  of 


ments. 


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Apollo  P^°P^^- 
Commanderj'  was  repeatedly  honored 
honored.  j   -n       -r-  ■' 

and  I'ast  Lmment 

Rt.  Em.  Sir 
Vincent  L. 
Hurlbut. 


Apollo 
thanked  by 
the  Grand 
Master. 


The  great 
fire. 


The  Asylum 
cestroved. 


A  portentous 
event. 


The  work  of 
years  seem- 
ingly lost. 


The  Knights 
homeless. 


Depression 
and  disasters 
one  after 
another. 


Brave  hearts 
and  enter- 
prising 
minds. 


Apollo  Commandery  under  command  of  Eminent  Sir  Myers 
and  as  repeatedly  reciprocated  by  honoring  others ; 
Commander  and  Past  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander 
Vincent  Lum.bard  Hurlbut,  was  advanced  to  the  distinguished  rank  of  Grand 
Generalissimo  of  the  Grand  Encampment,  and  the  Commanderv  joyfully  re- 
turned to  its  home  at  Chicago.  Subsequently  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master 
expressed  his  thanks  as  follows  : 


Geand  Encampment  cf  the  United  States. 

By  M.  E.  Sir  William  Sewall  Gardner,  Grand  Master. 

The  Grand  -Master  hereby  tenders  his  personal  thanks  together  with  those  of  the  Grand  En- 
campment,  to  the  Eminent  Sir  Eugene  B.  .Myers,  Commander  cf  Apollo  Commanden-  of  Chicago 
under  the  Grand  Commander^- of  IHinois,  for  the  knightly  escort  to  the  Grand  En'campment  A 
the  Eighteenth  Tnennial  Session  at  Baltimore,  Mar^-land. 

The  Grand  Master  especially  comphments  the  Eminent  Commander  upon  the  notable  disci- 
phne  and  knightly  courtesy  of  his  command,  and  upon  the  brilliant  appearance  of  Apollo  Com- 
manderj-  m  the  great  pageant  held  on  Thursday,  the  21st  inst.  The  Grand  Master  expresses  his 
thanks  to  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  lUinois  for  detaUing  Apollo  Commander^-  for 
the  special  duty  of  escort  to  the  Grand  Encampment.  The  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander 
of  Illinois  Will  cause  this  order  to  be  transmitted  to  the  Eminent  Commander  of  Apollo  Com- 
mander^-.    Done  at  Baltimore,  Marv-land,  Sept.  21st,  A.  D.  1S71. 

^^^-^'^   ,        ^  ^  Ey  the  Grand  Master. 

Attes:  :    John  D.  Caldwell,  Grand  Recorder. 

October  8th.  9th  and  loth  a  great  conflagration  raged  in  the  city  of  Chicago 
destroying  a  great  part  of  the  city.  The  Asylum  of  Apollo  Commandery  was 
burned  to  the  ground  and  the  paraphernalia,  documents,  files  and  properly,— 
the  accumulation  of  years  of  toil,  were  wholly  destroyed,  and  proved  to  be  a 
total  loss  as  far  as  Apollo  Commandery  was  concerned,  even  the  small  insurance 
of  S5,oco  covering  its  property  being  absolutely  worthless. 

Here  we  pause  a  moment  to  recount  the  disasters  incident  to  that  dire 
October  fire  ;  because  it  was  one  of  the  most  portentous  events  in  its  history 
and  in  thehistor>-  of  the  city  of  Chicago  ;  if  not  without  parallel  in  the  history- 
of  any  city  in  the  world. 

It  seemed  as  if  the  result  of  the  best  thought  of  many  minds,  and  the  work 
of  many  hands,  seeking  the  well-being  of  the  Commander)^  from  1S45  to  that 
were  neutralized  andlost^  and  that  there  was  nothing  but  ashes  to  give 
of  either  properties  or  history.  Jewelled  keepsakes  and  precious  docu- 
ments, frosted  over  with  the  guttering  memories  of  years,  had  disappeared. 
Many  of  the  Sir  Knights  had  been  made  homeless,  their  business  and  business 
places  destroyed,  and  some  had  been  reduced  to  penuiy  and  physical  suffering. 
Starting  up  to  the  realization  of  a  financial  loss  of  hundreds  of  millions  of 
dollars,  depression  prevailed  in  the  business  community  and  homes  of  the 
citizens;  affecting  Masonic  interests  even  more  seriously  than  other  interests, 
because  its  members  were  confronted  by  such  weighty  problems  as  seeking  to 
save  something  from  the  wreck,  or  wringing  enough  from  fate  to  supply  daily 
food  for  self  and  little  ones  ;  hence  lack  of  interest  hung  like  a  pall  over  the  Com- 
mander}'. Brave  hearts  and  enterprising  minds  were  required,  and.  above  all, 
a  Commander  of  courage.    Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers  had  all  his  stock 


date, 
token 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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of  merchandise  and  place  for  doing  business  destroyed;  and  yet,  with  these 

private  cares,  equal  to  the  strength  of  almost  any  man,  he  did  not  falter.  With 

the  characteristic  enterprise  of  a  Chicagoan  he  re-established  his  business  at 

his  residence,  and  on  October  14th,  1871,  an  informal  special  Conclave  of  the  J^^^™^^ 

Commandery  was  convened  in  the  hall  of  Home  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  No.  Conclave, 

1066  Prairie  avenue,  south  of  Twenty-second  street. 

A  committee,  consisting  of  the  Eminent  Commander,  Eminent  Sir  Gilbert  W.  Committee 
Barnard  and  Sir  E.  N.  Edwards,  of  St.  Bernard  Commandery  and  Sirs  Edwin  find°he^locL°- 
Powell,  John  Clark  Hilton  and  William  Lewis  Barnum,  of  Apollo  Command-  ^^"^"gj^^^^''' 
ery,  was  appointed  to  prepare  a  record  of  the  names  and  whereabouts  of  the 
Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  and  St.  Bernard  Commanderies  who  were  made  sufferers 
by  the  late  fire. 

Home  and  Apollo  Lodges,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  Chicago  Commandery  No.  Hallstend- 
19,  Knights  Templar,  tendered  the  use  of  their  halls  to  the  Commandery,  for  ' 
which  thanks  were  given,  and  the  matter  of  a  hall  for  meetings,  was  referred  to 
the  Commander.  Eminent  Sir  Myers  and  Sir  George  Redfield  Chittenden  then 
made  verbal  reports  relative  to  the  receipt  of  moneys  for  the  aid  of  distressed  maderelative 
Templars  ;  and  Eminent  Sir  Charles  Homan  Brower  was  appointed  to  prepare  f^j^^J^^^^ 
a  series  of  resolutions,  making  acknowledgement  for  donations  received  for  the 
Commandery. 

However  harsh  and  inconsiderate  the  every  day  work  of  men  may  be ;  what- 
ever are  the  cross  purposes  and  rivalries  incident  to  competition  in  trade,  or  for 
ambitious  preferment,  because  of  personal  characteristics  or  geographical  lo- 
cation ;  however  calloused  to  seeming  hardness  of  heart  or  selfishness  by  the 
busy  bustling  turmoil  of  daily  contact  with  the  stern  realities  of  a  not  too  ^^^.^ 
sympathetic  world,  man  may  become,  occasion  warranting  it,  the  magic  wand  wand  of 
of  Sympathy  makes  the  whole  world  kin  in  sacrificing  kindnesses.    In  battle^  makes  the 


whole  world 
kin. 


a  soldier  engaged,  fails  to  note  the  death  of  friend  or  foe  on  account  of  any 
tenderness.  Mangled  humanity  does  not  make  him  pause ;  and  rivers  of 
human  blood  do  not  cause  his  cheek  to  pale.  The  purpose  for  which  he  fights 
presents  only  two  phases  of  the  contest  to  his  mind ;  the  one,  to  do  whatever 
damage  he  can;  and  second,  to  gain  the  victory  irregardless  of  methods. 
While  thus  engaged,  heap  upon  heap  of  dying  and  dead  cause  him  no  concern, 
but  let  the  carnage  cease,  his  excitement  give  way  to  repose,  and  he  hear  the 
throb  and  beat  upon  the  muffled  drum,  indicating  that  a  single  soul  has  winged 
its  flight  and  that  the  mortal  remains  of  one  companion  soldier  are  being  borne  to 
their  final  resting  place,  and  all  the  sympathetic  phases  of  his  better  manhood 
are  involved;  his  heart  beats  mournfully;  and  tears  wet  his  eyelids,  and  course 
one  after  the  other  over  his  hardened  and  sunburned  cheek.  The  great  Chicago 
fire,  like  the  sound  of  a  muffled  drum  after  a  battle,  caused  our  Fraters  the 
world  over  to  sympathetically  pause  in  their  daily  battling  avocations,  and  with 
hearts  aglow  with  kindness,  they  gave  voice  to  their  sympathy;  bade  the  Relief  from 
Knights  of  Apollo  No.  I  to  be  of  good  courage ;  and  generously  gave  relief  ^amisT^ 
from  outstretched  fraternal  hands. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


It  cannot  be 
forgotten. 


Formal 
thanks. 


Sir  Henry W, 
Bigelow  re- 
ports funds 
received. 


Dispensation 

from  Grand 

Commander 

making 

meetings 

regular. 


Hall  of 
HomeLodge. 

New  apart- 
ments to  be 
found. 


Donations. 


The  work. 

Election  of 
Em.  Sir 
James  H. 
Miles. 

Detroit  No.  i 

gives  a 
Standard, 


In  olden  times  the  succor,  of  a  beleaguered  host  by  chivalric  reinforcements, 
was  soul  inspiring  and  grand,  but  the  kind  and  generous  acts  of  Fratres  of 
other  cities  towards  those  who  suffered  at  Chicago  were  sublime,  and  their 
efforts  to  succor  the  needy,  bind  up  the  wounds  of  the  afflicted  and  repair  the 
losses  of  the  Commandery  as  a  body,  can  never  be  forgotten. 

If  there  are  any  who  have  not  received  the  formal  thanks  which  cold  courtesy 
demands,  Apollo  Commandery  gives  them  the  warm  heart-thanks  of  her  Sir 
Knights  now,  and  asks  that  they  will  be  kind  enough  to  remember  the  condition 
of  the  Commandery  and  Sir  Knights  immediately  after  the  fire ;  that  they  were 
without  Masonic  abode,  and  that  every  one  was  concerned  with  personal  cares; 
and  then  we  feel  that  they  will  think  it  the  greatest  wonder  of  all  that  any  should 
have  received  formal  thanks  rather  than  that  some  should  have  been  neglected. 
Cold  words  are  trival  things  by  comparison  with  the  devoted  heart-thankfulness 
which  we  lovingly  inscribe  upon  this  page  for  the  generous  acts  of  Fratres  who 
gave  aid  to  Apollo  Commandery,  or  her  Sir  Knights  when  it  was  most  needed. 

At  . the  Special  Conclave,  held  Monday  evening,  November  I2th,  1871,  in 
the  Asylum  of  Chicago  Commandery,  No.  19,  south-west  corner  of  Randolph 
and  Halsted  streets,  Sir  Henry  Winants  Bigelow  reported  the  receipt  of 
a  donation  of  three  hundred  dollars  from  Springfield  Commandery  of  Spring- 
field,  Massachusetts. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  in  the  hall  of  Home  Lodge,  1066  Prairie 
Avenue,  Tuesday  evening,  November  21st,  1871,  a  dispensation  was  read, 
granted  by  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  Wiley  Michael  Egan,  making 
both  meetings  and  doings  of  the  Commandery  on  whatever  night  meetings 
had  been  held  since  the  destruction  of  its  Asylum,  October  9th,  regular 
and  legal ;  and  it  was  resolved  that  the  Commandery  should  accept  the  invita- 
tion of  Home  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M  ,  to  occupy  its  hall  for  future  Conclaves, 
and  on  motion  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  Gurney,  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed 
for  the  purpose  of  procuring  permanent  apartments  for  the  Commandery,  with 
power  to  act.  The  Eminent  Commander  appointed  as  such  committee  Right 
Eminent  Sirs  Gurney,  Hurlbut,  Ranney,  Eminent  Sir  Brower,  and  Sir  Amos 
Grannis,  to  serve  with  himself  and  successor  in  office.  The  Eminent  Com- 
mander reported  a  donation  of  one  thousand  dollars  from  the  Grand  Command- 
ery, and  that  there  was  in  the  hands  of  a  committee  consisting  of  Right  Emi- 
nent Sir  Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut,  Right  Eminent  Sir  Ranney,  Eminent  Sir 
Myers  and  Sirs  George  Redfield  Chittenden  and  Gilbert  Richard  Smith,  relief 
donations  from  elsewhere. 

Notwithstanding  the  unpropitious  circumstances  the  "  work  "  had  not  been 
neglected,  and  the  arduous  duties  of  Eminent  Sir  Myers  ended  for  the  time  at 
the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  5th,  1871,  when  Eminent  Sir  James  Hoage 
Miles  was  elected  to  succeed  him.  He  served  during  the  years  1872  and  1873. 
At  the  Annual  Conclave  at  which  Eminent  Sir  Miles  was  elected,  a  Standard  was 
received  from  Detroit  Commandery  No.  i  of  Michigan,  and  a  committee  to 
acknowledge  the  gift  appointed ;  and  a  committee  was  also  named  to  procure  a 
Past  Commander's  Jewel  for  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Myers. 


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At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  January  2d,  1872,  Sir  Thomas  D.  Snyder  pre-  Donations.  ■ 
sented  the  Commandery  with  a  magnificent  bible. 

At  the  Special  Conclave  held  January  30th  of  the  same  year,  Eminent  Sir 
A.  G.  Hibbard  of  Detroit  Commandery,  and  an  honorary  member  of  Apollo,  gave 
twelve  silver  goblets  to  the  Commandery ;  Sir  Knight  Joseph  Seymour  of 
Syracuse,  New  York,  presented  a  full  set  of  Commandery  Jewels  ;  Sir  Knight 
George  P.  Wright  of  Chicago  Commandery,  donated  a  "Casket,"  and  com- 
mittees to  make  due  acknowledgment  were  appointed. 

Sir  Francis  W.  Buckingham  presented  his  Commandery  with  a  Warder's 
Trumpet,  and  the  gift  was  suitably  acknowledged  by  Eminent  Sir  Brower. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  July  1 6th,  1872,  one  thousand  dollars  was  re-  Templarand 
ceived  from  the  Templar  and  Scottish  Rite  Relief  Committee,  and  a  committee 
appointed  to  duly  acknowledge  the  gift;  and  Eminent  Sir  James  H.  Miles  committee, 
donated  twelve  silver  candlesticks. 

At  the  Annual  Conclave  held  Tuesday  evening  December  3d,  1872,  in  the  Annual 
hall  of  Cleveland  Lodge,  No,  ii,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.— the  hall  of  Home  Lodge  [h?h5fo¥ 
being  too  small — the  committee  appointed  to  procure  permanent  quarters  Nov-  Lo^cfe^"^*^ 
ember  21st,  made  report  that  they  had  accepted  the  proposition  of  Charles 
Fargo  to  rent  apartments  to  the  Commandery  in  the  American  Express  Build-  ers.^^^^'^'^ 
ing  on  Monroe  Street,  just  west  of  State  Street,  at  thirty-five  hundred  dollars 
per  year  for  ten  years;  and  the  Eminent  Commander  reported  ^4,031.77  of  Donations 
donations  in  hand  not  including  the  ^1,000  from  the  Grand  Commandery  here- 
tofore  reported. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  Tuesday  evening  December  17th,  1872,  at  Ma-  ^Masonk  ^ 
sonic  Temple,  Halsted  and  Randolph  Streets,  a  committee  of  five  was  raised,  sted  and 
consisting  of  Eminent  Sirs  James  H.  Miles,  Eugene  B.  Myers,  Theodore  T.  Jr^'eeJ^^^ 
Gurney  and  Sirs  Dewitt  C.  Cregier  and  Laban  Beecher  Dixon,  to  raise  funds  ^ 
and  furnish  the  rooms  recently  rented  from  the  American  Merchants  Union  to  build  and 


Express  Company,  with  power  to  act  and  to  make  report  of  their  progress  from  f^^^^^^h- 
time  to  time;  and  at  the  Stated  Conclave  held  March  i8th,  A.  D.  1873,  at 
Home  Lodge  Hall,  134  22d  Street,  Eminent  Sir  Miles  made  report  for  the 
committee  substantially  as  follows  : 

That  the  committee  had  held  frequent  meetings,  and  finally  had  decided  on  plans  for  the  apart-  Report  of 
ments ;  that  they  had  considered  the  matter  of  raising  funds  to  pay  the  expenses  incurred  in  get-  same, 
ting  them  ready  for  occupancy  ;  that  it  would  greatly  add  to  the  credit  of  Apollo  Commandery  to 
act  promptly  ;  that  the  Trustees  should  issue  an  address  setting  forth  the  needs  of  the  Body,  such 
address  to  be  sent  to  the  membership  asking  contributions  ;  that  a  special  committee  of  twenty 
members  should  be  appointed  to  call  on  the  Sir  Knights  to  solicit  and  collect  donations  ;  that  the 
work  of  fitting  up  the  apartments  should  commence  at  once  ;  and  a  deficit  occurring,  that  the 
Trustees  and  Building  Committee  should  be  empowered  to  borrow  the  necessary  flinds  to 
complete  the  apartments  ;  that  it  was  estimated  that  the  total  cost  would  only  amount  to  twenty 
thousand  dollars  ;  that  the  annual  expense  would  be  only  seve^  thousand  and  five  hundred 
dollars  ;  and  the  income  nine  thousand  and  five  hundred  dollars,  or  that  there  would  be  left  two 
thousand  dollars  profit,  and  that  it  would  be  easy  to  collect  fifteen  thousand  dollars  from  the  mem- 
bers, as  it  would  only  be  forty-one  dollars  a  man  ;  whereupon  the  report  was  adopted. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Committee        At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  April  15th,  at  134  22d  Street,  the  committee 
of  twenty.      ^^j^gis^ing  of  twenty  Sir  Knights  was  appointed  ;  at  the  Stated  Conclave  held 
July  ist,  1873,  the  building  committee  reported  verbally  that  the  new  apart. 
Siimkfee     ments  on  Monroe  Street  would  be  ready  for  occupancy  September  1st  next ;  and 
JoSmsreldy  at  the  Stated  Conclave  held  November  4th,  1873,  it  was  voted  to  negotiate  the 
sale  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars  worth  of  bonds— the  exact  amount  the  com- 
mittee reportedfirst  that  they  thought  they  could  easily  secure  in  donations  from 
the  Sir  Knights— at  once  at  the  best  rate  possible. 

This  summary  of  events  brings  us  to  the  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Commandery 
meSgin  which  was  held  in  the  New  Armory,  ^2  to  78  Monroe  street,  December  2d, 
new  armory.  ^^^^  ^.^^  ^^^^^^  hundred  and  nine  Sir  Knights  present  out  of  a  total 

En^i  membership  of  345  ;  at  which  time  Eminent  Sir  Walter  Augustus  Stevens  was 

Stevens  '     elected  to  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of  Eminent  Commander  of  a  much-in- 
elected  Com-   ,  ,    ^  , 
mander.        debt  Commandery. 

^  c:-  M  l  Eminent  Sir  James  H.  Miles  was  a  painstaking  Commander,  correct  as  a 
S  tie  work  Ritualist,  and  in  private  business.  He  was  austere  in  manner  and  lacked  in 
maiy°"'  personal  magnetism,  but  was  honest  and  fearless,  and  had  many  difficulties^  to 
during  his  in-  s^^mount  durincr  his  administration  which  would  have  appalled  a  less  positive 
cumbency.  -.^^  ^^^.^^^  p^^^      ^^^^  g.^  knights  (but  more  espec- 

ially Masons  not  belonging  to  the  Commandery),  that  Apollo  Commandery 
should  at  once  have  a  Masonic  Home,  and  fit  up  rooms  for  other  Masonic 
bodies,  urged  on  the  officers  in  charge,  and  no  one  foreseeing  the  great  panic  of 
1873  at  the  time  the  accommodations  were  leased  of  the  American  Express 
Company,  every  line  of  trade  giving  evidence  of  continued  prosperity,  and 
property  everywhere  in  the  city  bringing  almost  fabulous  rentals;  the  lease  for 
ten  years  was  made  in  the  highest  market,  and,  as  far  as  subsequent  results 
were  concerned,  it  became  very  depressing, 
furnish       The  apartments  were  rented  with  the  generous  purpose  of  furnishing  other 
otherMason-  Masonic  bodies  who  had  been  burned  out  of  halls  formerly  occupied  by  them 
ifometltc.     With  new  quarters,  they  tacitly  agreeing  to  remain  tenants  for  ten  years  at  the 
current  rental  at  the  time  they  should  first  gain  possession,  and  m  such  way  to 
compensate  Apollo  for  the  burden  assumed,  and  risk  run,  by  in  this  way  making 
*  it  seem  like  a  profitable  investment,  and  a  not  extra  hazardous  undertaking ;  and 

the  committee'even  made  sanguine  estimates  of  resulting  profits.  Subsequent 
events  made  it  a  real  burden  to  Apollo  Commandery,  in  consequence  of  the 
panic,  general  business  depression  and  decline  in  rents ;  hence  the  large  burden 
of  debt  contracted  made  the  estimated  profits  dwindle  into  only  a  sad  travesty 
upon  the  result  anticipated  by  the  committee. 
The  panic       The  panic  came,  and  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo,who  had  not,  by  any  means, 
^^73.        recovered  from  losses  by  fire,  felt  the  great  shock  of  the  financial  ^evoM^on  In 
many  cases  the  remnant  of  fortune  was  swept  away  as  with  a  breath,  and  the  fight 
for  self,  made  the  preservation  of  the  Commandery  more  difficult  it  ^^--f  ^^^^^ 
sole  burden-bearer  for  all  its  tenants;  besides  being  unable  under  the  charter  of 
Theindebt-  the  Grand  Commandery,  to  borrow  more  than  >  f  ^^^^ 

fppluinT         of  bonds  as  previously  voted.    The  indebtedness  of  the  Commandery  for 


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which  they  were  bound  by  contract,  was  appalling,  in  view  of  the  circum. 

stances,  and  as  the  day  of  settlement  approached  the  judgment  of  those  who 

had  accepted  the  proposition  of  the  American  Express  Company  and  contracted 

the  indebtedness  for  furnishing,  was  sharply  questioned.    Had  it  not  been  for 

the  panic  that  which  was  denounced  would  have  been  lauded.    The  collection 

of  dues  even  became  next  to  impossible,  because  it  was  not  easy  for  the  Sir 

Knights  to  pay  them.    The  condition  of  affairs  was  enough  to  discourage  g.^ 

any  man.    Under  the  circumstances  Eminent  Sir  Miles  did  the  best  he  could.  Miles'didthe 

He  husbanded  the  resources  of  the  Commandery ;  worked  in  and  out  of  season  ;  besthecould. 

conferred  the  Orders  upon  thirty-five;  paid  ^2,235.02  on  account  of  building 

and  furnishing;  left  a  balance  of  $3,139.72  in  cash  in  the  treasury;  besides 

having  earned,  but  imcollected  assets  (good,  bad  and  indifferent),  amounting 

to  $3,093.58;  and  an  Asylum  and  Masonic  apartments,  although  then  held  by 

a  very  slight  tenure.    If  he  had  made  a  mistake  in  regard  to  the  renting  and 

furnishing  the  new  apartments  he  was  compelled  to  abide  the  consequences. 

If  the  committee  had  been  lavish  in  expenditures,  not  knowing  where  the 

money  was  coming  from  to  meet  the  indebtedness,  and  had  failed  to  keep  a 

correct  record  of  their  transactions,  he  avoided  no  responsibility  by  word  or 

deed,  but  performed  the  duties  that  devolved  upon  him  as  best  he  could,  and 

deserves  his  full  reward,  in  the  thanks  of  the  Commandery,  and  the  knowledge 

that  it  still  occupies  the  rooms  fitted  up  under  his  administration,  and  that 

they  have  been  paid  for. 


34  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


CHAPTER  VL 


A.   D.    1874  TO  A.  D.   1876,  INCLUSIVE. 


Em.  Sir 

Stevens 
grapples 
with  circum- 
stances. 
Officers 
installed. 


First 

meeting  in 
new  Asylum. 


Committee 
of  thirteen. 


The  Sir 

Knights 

summoned. 

Indebtedness 

stated. 


New  articles 
of  incorpo- 
ration. 


The  Sir 

Knights 
accept. 


Corporation 
called  to 
order. 


With  such  a  burden  resting  upon  the  Commandery  and  in  the  face  of  such 
discouraging  prospects,  Eminent  Sir  Walter  Augustus  Stevens  grappled  with 
the  unpropitious  circumstances. 

At  the  Conclave  held  December  9th,  1873,  the  ofi&cers  were  installed  in  the 
presence  of  only  twenty-one  Sir  Knights.  It  was  voted  to  hold  all  future  Con- 
claves of  the  Commandery  in  the  new  apartments;  and  at  the  Conclave  held 
December  i6th  of  the  same  year,  the  Commandery  met  for  the  first  time  in  the 
new  Asylum,  with  officers  and  only  eleven  Sir  Knights  present. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave,  held  January  6th,  1874,  there  being  present  the 
officers  and  only  fifteen  Sir  Knights,  it  was  voted  to  add  ten  Sir  Knights  to  the 
committee  consisting  of  the  three  first  officers,  who  had  been  endeavoring  to 
sell  the"  scrip"  bonds  of  the  Commandery,  (making  a  committee  of  thirteen;) 
and  that  all  bonds  heretofore  prepared,  save  the  one  issued  to  Eminent  Sir 
James  H.  Miles,  should  be  destroyed. 

The  exigencies  of  the  Commandery  being  so  great,  and  it  appearing  that  the 
private  affairs  of  the  Sir  Knights  were  so  engrossing  that  they  failed  to  attend 
the  Conclaves  and  work  with  a  purpose  for  a  solution  of  its  difficulties,  the  Sir 
Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  were  summoned  to  attend  the  Stated  Conclave 
held  January  20th,  1874,  when  the  Eminent  Commander  stated  to  them  the 
indebtedness  of  the  Body  as  far  as  he  had  been  enabled  to  ascertain  it,  and 
informed  them  that  only  ^3,400  of  ''stock"  had  been  subscribed  and  ^475 
donated.  At  the  stated  notified  Conclave,  held  February  3d  of  the  same  year, 
Sir  Norman  T.  Gassette,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  "  Thirteen,"  for  and  in 
behalf  of  the  Committee,  reported  what  steps  were  necessary  to  be  taken  before 
bonds  could  be  legally  issued.  At  the  summoned  Conclave,  held  February 
I2th,  1874,  212  members  being  present,  and  articles  of  incorporation  having 
been  procured,  Norman  T.  Gassette,  on  behalf  of  the  Finance  Committee  and 
incorporators,  stated  that  a  preliminary  organization  had  been  perfected,  and 
that  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  had  been  elected  members  thereof 
and,  on  motion,  the  Sir  Knights,  by  vote,  accepted  their  election  to  membership 
at  the  hands  of  the  incorporators,  and  the  Eminent  Commander  was  instructed 
to  signify  to  them  such  fact.  The  corporation  was  then  called  to  order,  Hos- 
mer  A.  Johnson  appointed  temporary  chairman  and  Benjamin  B.  W.  Locke, 
secretary,  the  articles  of  incorporation  were  then  read,  whereupon,  Norman  T. 
Gassette,  on  behalf  of  the  Fmance  Committee,  asked  for  certain  legislation 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


35 


which  was  rendered  necessary  by  the  general  laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois  per- 
taining to  corporations,  embodied  in  five  resolutions ;  seeking  the  proper  govern- 
ment of  the  corporation  and  for  authority  to  execute  and  sell  ^15,000  worth  of  ten 
per  cent,  interest-bearing  coupon  bonds,  and  pledge  the  assets  and  income  of  the 
Commandery  as  security,  all  of  which  legislation  was  approved.  Walter  Augustus 
Stevens,  Norman  T.  Cassette,  James  H.  McVicker,  John  Clark  Hilton  and  Yhst 
William  Harbron  Turner  were  then  elected  the  first  Board  of  Trustees  and  the  trustees, 
work  of  perfecting  the  incorporation  was  complete.     The  historians  of  the 
Commandery  have  felt  it  incumbent  upon  them  to  be  specific  relative  to  the  complete, 
contraction  of  a  great  indebtedness  by  the  Commandery,  the  motives  for  incurring  r^-^^ 
it,  the  machinery  adopted  for  its  reduction  and  final  extinguishment,  and  on  traction  and 

.'  extinguish- 

account  of  the  same  reasons  which  have  induced  them  to  do  so,  they  will  follow  ment  of  the 
step  by  step  to  the  end  the  process  of  liquidation ;  because  the  great-debt-of-  by^stepf^ 
rebuilding-period,  is  one  of  the  most  vital  and  critical  in  the  history  of  the 
Commandery,  exemplifying  as  it  does,  both  the  fortitude  and  self-abnegation  of 
Officers  and  some  of  the  Sir  Knights  under  the  most  trying  and  adverse  cir- 
cumstances; as  well  as  making  manifest  the  truth  that  conscientious  and  per- 
sistent efibrt  will  accomplish  like  results  for  Masonic  Institutions  that  it  does 
for  others. 

At  a  Summoned  Conclave  held  March  31st,  1874,  there  being  present  the 
Officers  and  one  hundred  and  forty-four  Sir  Knights,  the  Trustees  made  a  verbal  Trustees 
report  of  what  had  been  done  towards  discharging  the  debt;  the  pressing  neces-  ™erbar 
sities  upon  the  Body  incident  thereto;   and  Right  Eminent  Sir  Hosmer  A.  report. 
Johnson  and  Sirs  Hilton,  Laflin,  Cassette  and  others  bespoke  the  generosity  of 
the  Sir  Knights  for  the  cause,  and  urged  that  all  should  make  a  due  amount  of 
sacrifice  for  the  Commandery  to  which  they  belonged.    As  a  result  thirteen  rj-j^^  result 
hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  worth  of  bonds  were  subscribed  for,  and  six 
hundred  and  seventy-six  dollars  were  donated.    The  amount  was  large  consid- 
ering the  stringency  in  monetary  affairs  and  fire  losses,  but  as  far  as  the  needs 
of  the  Commandery  were  concerned,  was  wholly  inadequate. 

Monetary  panics  are  financial  epidemics,  analogous  in  consequential  results  to  panics, 
epidemics  of  disease,  but  epidemics  of  loss  of  interest,  and  captious,  unknightly, 
do-nothing,  pestilential  fault-finding,  incident  to  personal  difficulties  or  other- 
wise while  as  unexpected,  are  equally  pernicious,  and  finally  become  absolutely 
reprehensible,  because  they  could  be  avoided  while  the  others  cannot. 

To  a  degree  such  a  condition  of  affairs  was  prevalent  in  Apollo  Commandery 
during  its  darkest  and  most  discouraging  days.    The  attendance  was  meagre  Discourag- 
owing  to  frequent  appeals  for  money  or  fear  of  them;  and  the  successive  mgdays. 
money  result,  as  a  second  to  the  eff"orts  of  the  officers  to  extricate  the  Com- 
mandery from  its  embarrassing  condition  was  anything  but  encouraging.    So  - 
gloomy  was  the  outlook  that  one  of  the  Trustees,  who  is  well  known  for  both 
his  commercial  standing  and  business  acumen,  absolutely  refused  to  execute  A  trustee 
the  bonds  authorized  to  be  sold,  because  he  could  not  conscientiously  believe  execute 
that  they  would  ever  be  paid  by  the  Commandery.    Consequently  that  everything  ^o^^s. 
should  be  done  which  would  have  a  tendency  to  relieve  the  suspense,  and  per- 


36 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Time 

changed  for 
holding  the 
Annual 
Conclave. 


Report  of 
Trustees. 


Report  of 
the  Eminent 
Commander. 


Total 
discovered 
debt  at  that 
date. 


The  double 
sacrifice. 


Em.  Sir 
Stevens, 


mit  the  arbitriment  of  the  Commandery  which  alone  was  concerned  as  debtor, 
by  virtue  of  a  dispensation  obtained  from  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Com- 
mander, which  removed  all  restrictions  as  to  time,  for  considering  amendments 
to  the  By-Laws  of  the  Commandery,  on  motion  of  Sir  Elias  Palmer  Hall,  Cap- 
tain-General, seconded  by  Sir  Tracy  Town  Oviatt,  Generalissimo,  at  the  Stated 
Conclave  held  May  19th,  1874,  the  by-laws  of  the  Commandery  were  so 
amended  that  the  Annual  Conclave  should  occur  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  June 
instead  of  the  first  Tuesday  in  December.  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i  Knights 
Templar  in  its  magnanimous  sovereign  capacity  permitted  it,  and  on  June  2d, 
1874,  the  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Commandery,  both  Templar  and  Corpor- 
ate, was  held,  and  the  sacrifice  of  officers  made  complete.  The  Trustees  made 
report  that  since  their  election  no  money  had  come  into  their  hands  ;  that  but 
little,  if  any,  was  in  the  hands  of  the  Commandery  Treasurer,  that  notwith- 
standing every  effort  which  had  been  made,  that  the  fifteen  thousand  dollars  worth 
of  authorized  bonds  remained  unsold,  the  members  of  the  Commandery  either 
lacking  interest  or  confidence,  or  both,  to  such  degree  that  they  had 
neglected  to  buy  enough  of  them  so  that  the  remainder  could  be  of- 
fered generally  without  the  suspicious  question  being  asked,  "Why  don't 
the  wealthy  members  of  Apollo  Commandery  buy  them  if  they  are  good?" 
meeting  the  Trustees  at  every  turn  and  wounding  their  pride ;  that  they  had 
repeatedly  warned  the  Sir  Knights  relative  to  the  condition  of  affairs  ;  that  as  a 
Board,  they  disclaimed  all  accountability  for  the  existing  indebtedness,  it  having 
been  made  without  their  sanction,  prior  to  their  election,  and  apparently  without 
any  well  defined  idea  of  how  it  should  be  paid;  that  they  were  glad  that  it  was 
probable  some  solution  to  the  problem  would  that  night  be  arrived  at ;  and  that 
they  hoped  that  by  superhuman  efforts  an  incoming  Board  of  Trustees  might 
succeed  in  arousing  the  Body  from  its  apparent  lethargy  to  a  realizing  knowl- 
edge of  the  existing  condition  of  affairs. 

The  Eminent  Commander  reported  that  at  that  date  the  already  discovered 
cost  of  the  apartments  was  thirty  thousand  two  hundred  and  sixty-five  dollars 
and  seventy -two  cents,  of  which  seven  thousand  nine  hundred  and  fourteen 
dollars  and  sixty-eight  cents  only,  besides  the  five  thousand  dollars  to  be  used 
by  the  American  Express  Company,  had  been  paid,  leaving  an  indebtedness 
due  and  unprovided  for— considering  bills  for  current  expense  and  amounts 
of  indebtedness  due  before  the  fire  -of  twenty-one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
twenty-eight  dollars  and  three  cents. 

The  election  of  ofacers  then  occurred ;  an  amendment  to  the  by-laws  was 
offered,  changing  the  time  for  holding  the  annual  meeting  back  from  June  to 
December,  and  the  double  sacrifice  was  complete  :  First,  the  sacrifice  of  self 
on  the  part  of  officers,  and  second,  of  chivalric  principle  in  sustaining  consci- 
entious servants  by  the  Commandery ;  exemplifying  once  again  how  short  the 
step  is  between  consideration  and  passion,  love  and  hate,  esteem  and  aversion, 
and  popularity  and  indifference. 

Eminent  Sir  Knight  Walter  Augustus  Stevens  had  been  elected  with  mani- 
fest enthusiasm  but  a  few  months  previous,  and  had  assumed  the  duties  of  his 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


37 


office  with  a  laudable  determination  to  perform  the  full  measure  of  all  the  duties 
that  should  be  required  of  a  Commander,  but  circumstances  beyond  human  control 
had  affected  the  prosperity  of  the  Sir  Knights,  and  their  discomforts  found  ex- 
pression in  acts  which  were  unjustifiable,  and  the  burdens  of  the  Commandery 
became  too  heavy  for  endurance  for  one  man,  when  his  own  necessities  com- 
pelled him  to  provide  for  himself  and  famil3^;  to,  day  by  day,  follow  his  profes- 
sion and  attend  to  his  dental  patients. 

No  Knight  Templar  was  ever  more  true  to  duty ;  none  more  generous-  No  Templar 
hearted;  none  more  self-sacrificing;  none  more  genial  and  sunny;  none  more  tn:e."^°'^^ 
worthy  by  reason  of  a  correct  moral  private  or  semi-public  life  than  was  Emi- 
nent Sir  Stevens,  and  his  administration  only  brings  us  face  to  face  with  certain 
inscrutable  phases  of  human  nature.     He  had  accomplished  much.    He  had 
delved  into  the  unknown  of  the  debt,  and  held  up  to  view  the  partially  untangled 
skein.     For  the  use  of  his  prerogative  to   summons  the  members  he  was 
much  criticized,  but  it  being  necessary  to  call  upon  all  Sir  Knights  to  contribute 
both  advice  and  money  to  preserve  the  honor  of  the  Commandery,  and  they 
voluntarily  and  persistently  absenting  themselves,  the  use  of  the  summons  was 
not  alone  justifiable,  it  was  a  duty.     We  believe,  that  the  impartial  critic 
would  be  compelled  to-day  to  admit  that  the  action  of  Eminent  Sir  Stevens  in  this 
behalf  was  warranted,  a  required  disciplinary  measure,  and  evinced  a  pre-eminent 
fitness  to  discharge  the  high  duties  placed  in  his  hands,  for,  although  its  efficacy 
was  partially  spent  in  consequence  of  the  animositiesof  a  minority  who  should  have 
endeavored  to  render  its  use  needless,  the  resultant  was  the  re-incorporation  of 
the  Commandery,  thereby  providing  the  required  machinery  or  methods  used  by 
which  the  remaining  indebtedness  was  ultimately  paid.    Notwithstanding  all 
non-concurring  circumstances  the  work  of  the  Commandery  was  in  no  wise  Thework 
neglected,  eleven  being  knighted  and  three  affiliated.    The  indebtedness  was  not 
decreased  three  thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty-seven  dollars,  and  five  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  forty-nine  dollars'  worth  of  assets  of  variable  value  were 
accumulated,  of  which  thirteen  hundred  and  seventy-four  dollars  was  cash  in 
the  hands  of  the  Treasurer.    This  record  is  one  of  which  any  Commander  may  Of  his  record 
be  proud,  and  Eminent  Sir  Stevens  is  entitled  to  all  the  credit  due  a  faithful  p^oud^ 
servant,  and  cognizance  of  the  fact  that  a  truthful  history  demonstrates  his  to 
have  been  one  of  the  most  deserving  administrations  known  in  the  annals  of 
the  Commandery.     Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers  again  assumed  the 
onerous  duties  incident  to  the  position  of  Eminent  Commander,  succeeding 
Eminent  Sir  Stevens. 

The  financial  depression  continued  and  the  task  undertaken  would  certainly  Thefinancial 

have  appalled  any  less  devoted  knight.    His  zeal  as  Commander  was  rewarded  depression 

continued, 

after  many,  many  weary  days  of  labor  by  gratifymg  results.  When  fully  listed, 
he  found  the  outstanding  overdue  unadjusted  debt  to  be  twenty-two  thousand 
nine  hundred  and  eleven  dollars;  and  also  learned  of  the  hopelessness  indulged 
in  by  many  of  the  members ;  the  loss  of  interest  in  others,  and  that  there  were 
only  a  few  trusty,  hopeful,  courageous  co-workers  upon  whom  he  could  rely,  and 
yet  he  unflinchingly  sacrificed  and  worked. 


41 


38  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Corner-stone 
of  the  new 
Government 
building. 
Time  for 
holding  the 
Annual 
Conclave 
changed. 

The  Annual 
postponed. 


The  Annual. 


Em.  Sir 

Myers 

re-elected. 

Corner-stone 
of  Rush 
Medical 
College. 

The  Annual 
and  re-elec- 
tion of  Em. 
Sir  Myers. 

Public 
installation. 

Annual 
Conclave. 


Em.  Sir 
Norman  T. 
Cassette. 


Em.  Sir 
Myers 
the  debt 
reducer. 


Committee 

on  Com- 
mander's 
Address, 
report. 


June  24th,  1874,  the  Commandery  helped  lay  the  corner  stone  of  the  new 
Government  Building,  located  at  Clark  and  Adams  streets. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  November  3d  cf  the  same  year,  the  proposed 
amendment  to  the  by-laws,  changing  the  time  for  holding  the  annual  meeting 
from  the  first  Tuesday  in  June  until  the  first  Tuesday  in  December  of  each  year 
was  adopted. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  December  ist,  1874,  acting  under  and  by  virtue 
of  a  Dispensation  from  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  the  annual 
meeting  was  postponed  until  the  first  Tuesday  in  January,  on  account  of  the 
Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  at  New  Orleans,  Louisiana, 
which  some  of  the  Officers  and  Sir  Knights  desired  to  attend. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Commandery  held  at  the  end  of  six  months, 
dating  from  June  to  January,  Eminent  Sir  Myers  reported  that  in  addition  to  five 
thousand  four  hundred  and  ninety-five  dollars  and  eighty-two  cents  paid  for 
current  expenses,  the  debt  had  all  been  adjusted,  the  bonds  sold,  the  debt 
reduced,  and  the  membership  increased.    He  was  re-elected! 

November  20th,  1875,  the  Commandery  helped  lay  the  corner  stone  of  Rush 
Medical  College;  otherwise,  the  year  was  uneventful  save  on  account  of  the 
continued  labors  of  the  Commander. 

He  was  again  re-elected  at  the  Annual  Conclave  held  December  7th,  1875, 
and  duly  installed  for  the  ensuing  year  at  a  special  Conclave  called  for  that 
purpose  December  14th,  in  presence  of  the  Sir  Knights  and  a  large  audience 
of  invited  guests  of  ladies,  Sir  Knights  and  gentlemen,  by  Very  Eminent 
Sir  Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut,  Deputy  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Encamp- 
ment, assisted  by  Right  Eminent  Sir  Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney,  then  Grand 
Commander  of  Illinois. 

Time  passed  rapidly  and  the  unwearied  labors  of  Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Bur- 
ritt  Myers  ended  December  5th,  1876,  when  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Norman 
Theodore  Gassette  was  elected  to  succeed  him. 

Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers,  besides  being  a  good  Ritualist  and  Exe- 
cutive Officer,  was  pre-eminently  the  debt  reducer  of  the  Commandery.  He  found 
at  the  commencement  of  his  first  administration,  A.  D.  187 1,  that  the  Com- 
mandery was  indebted  to  the  amount  of  two  thousand  three  hundred  and  eighty- 
three  dollars  and  sixty-five  cents,  which  he  immediately  proceeded  to  reduce, 
and  notwithstanding  expenses  incident  to  the  brilliant  pilgrimage  made  by 
Apollo  Commandery  to  Baltimore  to  attend  the  Triennial  Conclave  of  the 
Grand  Encampment,  the  destruction  of  property  and  disorganizing  effects  of  the 
Great  Fire  of  that  year  and  which  almost  completely  prevented  "  work,"  he  had 
decreased  the  indebtedness  seven  hundred  and  fifteen  dollars  and  ninety-four 
cents,  and  had  so  diligently  and  faithfully  administered  the  affairs  of  the  Com- 
mandery in  other  particulars,  that  the  committee  to  whom  his  report  was  referred 
after  having  had  the  same  under  consideration,  were  constrained  to  say  : 

"  That  they  had  reviewed  the  report  with  much  interest,  only  to  find  their  minds  much  more 
deeplj^  impressed  than  ever  before,  with  the  conviction  that  every  interest  of  the  Commandery 
had  had  his  watchful  and  undivided  attention  ;  and  his  utterances  breathe  so  much  of  Christian 
sympathy,  Knightly  courtesy  and  fraternal  consideration,  that  your  committee  are  unanimously 
of  the  opinion  that  the  address  should  be  spread  upon  our  Records." 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


39 


On  his  assumption  of  the  duties  of  Commander  in  1874,  he  found  the  Com- 
mandery  overburdened  with  debt;  and  with  other  discouraging  conditions  Overburdened 
connected  therewith.  The  attendance  was  generally  so  small  that  it  was  dis-  with  debt, 
heartening;  but  as  his  predecessor  had  so  thoroughly  exhausted  the  efficacy  of 
the  Summons  as  a  disciplinary  measure  to  overcome  a  lack  of  interest  and 
for  involuntary  money  raising,  he  was  compelled  to  find  some  other  way  to  reach 
the  Sir  Knights  if  they  failed  to  attend.  Eminent  Sir  Myers  closely  watched 
events  and  made  observations. 

At  the  Stated  Conclave  held  June  i6th,  there  were  only  fifteen  present;  at 
the  special  Conclave  held  June  23d,  twenty-four;  at  the  Stated  Conclave  of  ^^^gj^^^^j^^^g 
July  7th,  twelve;  at  the  special  Conclave  for  conferring  the  Order  of  the  Red 
Cross, twenty-nine  ;  at  the  Stated  Conclave  of  July  21st,  the  same  number;  and 
there  was  hardly  a  better  attendance  for  the  six  months  preceding  the  Annual 
meeting,  which  was  held  the  first  Tuesday  of  January,  1875. 

As  the     mountain  would  not  come  to  Mohammed,  Mohammed  went  to  The 

Commander 

the  mountain;  "   and  the  Commander  spent  day  after  day  in  calling  upon  the  makes  calls, 
members,  and  in  a  genial,  kindly,  persuasive  way,  asked  them  to  pay  their  dues, 
buy  bonds,  or  make  donations,  and  not  without  encouragement. 

At  the  January  Annual  meeting,  notwithstanding  the  self-sacrificing  labors  of  January 
Eminent  Sir  Myers,  there  were  only  one  hundred  and  fourteen  present,  out  of  1875!^^  ' 
the  whole  membership. 

The  Eminent  Commander  however  had  the  felicity  of  reporting  that  the  lease  Eminent 

for  the  apartments  was  executed  for  thirty- five  hundred  dollars  per  year  from  rep'orTs!'^ 

January  1st,  1874,  for  ten  years,  with  the  use  of  the  elevator  and  all  other 

agreed  privileges,  instead  of  forty-five  hundred  dollars  a  year,  as  reported  for 

the  same  privileges  by  the  former  Board  of  Trustees,  who  from  want  of  personal 

knowledge  of  the  original  preliminary  agreement  had  failed  to  convince  Mr. 

Charles  Fargo  that  that  should  be  the  amount  of  rent  named  therein ;  that  an 

increase  of  rents  had  been  obtained  from  all  the  tenants  of  the  Commandery 

but  one,  making  the  present  total  of  rents  to  be  received  aggregate  $7,Soo  per 

annum  :  that  the  whole  debt  had  been  adjusted  and  discharged  by  use  of  funds 

obtained  from  sale  of  bonds,  rents  collected,  amounting  to  four  thousand  seven 

hundred  and  sixty-three  dollars  and  thirty-two  cents ;  fees  realized,  and  two 

thousand  and  twenty-eight  dollars  of  donations,  which  had  been  principally 

solicited  by  the  Eminent  Commander. 

Eminent   Sir   Knight    Myers'  services  had   been    so   versatile,   brilliant  Em.  Sir 

.  .  Myers' 

and  successful  that  the  committee  who  had  his  report  under  consideration  in  services, 
their  communication  to  the  Commandery  relative  thereto,  said  : 

"  With  a  zeal  and  love  for  us  that  words  fail  to  express  the  Eminent  Commander  has  within 
this  short  period — June  to  January — relieved  us  from  financial  embarrassment.  *  *  *  and 
as  a  result  of  this  grand  consummation,  our  banner  is  unfurled,  our  honor  preserved  and  our 
prestige  unimpaired." 

To  accomplish  new  results  Eminent  Sir  Myers  continued  to  labor  through  the  Brilliant 
years  1875  and  1876  with  brilliant  success,  although  thwarted  by  variable  circum-  ^"'^'^^^2. 
stances  such  as,  suspension  of  members  in  the  lower  bodies,  thereby  decreasing 
the  number  of  due  payers  in  the  Commandery  ;  the  reduction  of  rents  received  in 
consequence  of  consolidation,  surrender  of  Charter  and  inability  of  tenants  to 


40 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Myers. 


pay,  in  like  ratio  diminishing  the  power  to  decrease  the  debt;  the  addition  of 
eleven  hundred  and  eight  dollars  to  the  construction  account,  for  finishing,  and 
needed  repairs ;  the  payment  of  the  ten  per  cent,  per  annum  interest  on  the 
fifteen  thousand  dollars  of  Commandery  bonds  sold,  and  yet  with  the  following 
Results  result :  The  debt  had  been  converted  from  a  floating  overdue  debt,  to  a  dis- 
charged, adjusted  and  bonded  one,  and  had  been  reduced  six  thousand  three 
hundred  and  thirty-seven  dollars  and  twenty-five  cents,  notwithstanding  the 
disbursements  made  on  account  of  the  annual  interest,  the  current  expenses  and 
for  construction,  besides  there  had  been  accumulated  and  earned  six  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  seventeen  dollars'  worth  of  uncollected  assets  of  variable 
values,  (fifteen  hundred  dollars  of  which  consisted  of  Apollo  Commandery 
bonds  placed  in  lieu  of  money  in  the  Life  Membership  Fund,  secured  by  pur- 
chase and  donation,)  and  of  which  his  successor  was  enabled  to  collect  three 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  twenty-two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  in  cash.  The 
membership  had  increased  also  from  349  in  June,  1874,  to  372,  Eminent  Sir 
Knight  Myers  having  knighted  seventy-one. 

The  services  of  this  Eminent  Sir  Knight  were  so  greatly  appreciated  by  the 
^resented  to  Commandery,  that  a  beautiful  silver  set  was  procured  for  presentation  to  him  ; 
^m.  Sir  and  at  a  Red  Cross  Banquet,  spread,  March  13th,  1877,  at  which  there  were 
probably  as  many  as  six  hundred  visiting  Sir  Knights  present,  hailing  from 
almost  every  Grand  Jurisdiction  in  the  United  States,  the  Sovereign  Master, 
Norman  T.  Cassette,  on  behalf  of  the  donors,  to  the  complete  surprise  of  Em- 
inent Sir  Myers,  made  plain  that  which  was  covered  and  presented  the  same  to 
him  in  words  substantially  as  follows  : 

"  Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers,  to  me  has  been  delegated  the  duty  of  presenting  to  you 
on  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  this  slight  token  of  its  regard.  The  duly 
is  clothed  with  the  halo  of  a  great  pleasure.  Years  hence  may  the  memories  of  this  night  be 
as  enjoyable  as  the  pleasure  is  to  us  now. 

Upon  the  records  of  this  Commandery — by  results — is  written  what  has  been  accomplished 
through  your  instrumentality.  *  *  *  Allow  me  to  say  for  those  whom  I  represent,  that 
while  all  the  Eminent  Sir  Knights  who  have  filled  the  office  of  Commander  of  Apollo  Command- 
ery, have  discharged  their  duties  like  true  Templars,  that  no  one  of  them  from  the  year  1845  until 
this  date  is  peer  to  yourself  in  services  rendered.  *  *  *  *  It  is  s.aid  in  connection  with 
a  distinguished  violinist  whose  mother  was  a  splendid  vocalist,  that  when  she  was  dying,  he  con- 
trived by  means  of  a  tube  inserted  into  her  mouth  to  catch  the  sound  of  her  last  breath.  It 
lingered  as  an  enchantment  with  him,  so  that  her  friends  whenever  he  touched  the  strings  of  his 
violin  could  recognize  the  tones  of  her  voice.  *  *  *  *  In  the  human  heart  great  bells 
are  ringing  ;  silent  to  the  world  yet  ever  ringing.  At  tim.es  they  are  alarum  bells,  again  they 
have  the  melodious  cadences  of  a  hymn  sung  by  a  mother  to  her  child  in  childhood.  *  *  * 
Withall  these  bells  ring  out  with  more  of  gladness  than  sadness,  and  the  grand  diapason  of  har- 
mony arouses  the  inherent  love  in  our  hearts  and  it  assumes  the  form  of  friendship.  In  your 
quiet  home,  where  love  reigns,  and  where,  when  your  children,  caressed,  run  their  fingers  through 
your  whitening  hair,  we  hope  that  when  this  our  offering  appears  before  you,  you  may  feel  that 
it  is  the  enchanted  key-board  towards  which  the  strings  of  our  hearts  converge,  and  listening  for 
their  quivering  pulsation  that  you  may  perchance  *  *  *  forever  afterward  hear  the  chime 
of  the  heart-bells  bringing  our  friendship  to  you  and  placing  it  second  only  to  the  love  you  find  in 
your  peaceful  home." 

The  truth  of  this  history  demands  that  we  say  that  Apollo  Commandery  will 
history.        forever  remain  in  debt  to  the  distinguished  Knight,  Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Bur- 
ritt Myers,  whose  written  record  is  without  a  flaw,  and  ranks  him  peer  among 
peers  and  Commander  among  Commanders. 


The  truth  of 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  41 


CHAPTER  VII. 

A.  D.   1877  TO  A.  D.    1879,  INCLUSIVE. 

Eminent  Sir  Norman  Theodore  Cassette  having  been  elected  as  successor  to 
Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers  December  5th,  1876,  for  1877,  and  con-  i^'J;man  T. 
secutively  re-elected  to  serve  as  Eminent  Commander  for  the  years  1878,  1879 
and  1880,  the  result  of  Annual  meetings  as  far  as  they  pertain  to  that  office,  Myers 
need  not  again  be  referred  to.  On  the  night  of  his  first  election,  the  Com- 
mandery  had  a  total  of  three  hundred  and  seventy-two  members.  The  remain- 
ing indebtedness  amounted  to  sixteen  thousand  five  hundred  and  seventy-four 
dollars  and  fifty-eight  cents.  A  part  of  this  indebtedness  was  a  note  for  ten 
thousand  dollars  made  in  favor  of  the  State  Savings  Institution, — guaranteed  by 
the  previous  and  present  Eminent  Commanders  besides  several  other  Sir 
Knights — which  would  soon  fall  due.  This  note  was  the  means  used  by  Emi- 
nent Sir  Myers,  to  effect  the  sale  of  a  like  amount  of  Apollo  Commandery 
bonds,  they  being  held  by  the  bank  as  collateral  thereto.  Cognizant  that  there 
was,  originally,  only  four  posiible  ways  of  paying  the  debt  to  wit :  by  disci- 
plining the  members  by  summons  so  that  the  Sir  Knights  answering  the  same 
could  be  induced  to  voluntarily  give ;  by  going  to  them  personally  and  soliciting  the  debt, 
donations ;  by  assessing  the  members  and  compelling  an  involuntary  payment 
of  money  ;  or  fourth,  by  earning  the  necessary  amount ;  and  the  first  two  methods 
having  already  been  exhausted  by  Eminent  Sirs  Stevens  and  Myers,  and  the 
third  way  being  deemed  unwise  and  inoperative  by  reason  of  circumstances 
which  had  notwithstanding  their  oft  tried  willingness,  rendered  as  generous  a 
body  of  Sir  Knights  as  ever  drew  a  sword  from  scabbard,  unable  to  give ;  the 
only  other  method,  that  of  earning  it  was,  of  necessity,  chosen  by  Eminent 
Commander  Cassette.  t^^earnTt*' 

The  three  ways  adopted  by  the  three  several  Commanders,  which  collectively 
accomplished  the  devoutly  sought  for  result,  met  with  an  equal  degree  of  censure 
from  an  ever  to  be  dissatisfied  minority,  and  as  usual,  received  the  hearty  and 
fraternal  commendation  of  the  best  thinking  and  zealous  majority. 

The  determination  exercised  by  Eminent  Commander  Cassette  to  pay  the  debt 
and  otherwise  advance  the  position  of  the  Commandery  is  evinced  by  results 
and  the  record. 

Apollo  Commandery  has  made,  during  its  existence,  2607  pages  of  record, 
1 1 64  of  which  were  made  during  his  administration.    It  lacks  only  139 }4  made^'^ 
pages  of  being  half  of  the  total  record  made  by  the  Commandery  for  thirty- 
nine  years. 

During  his  administration  there  were  received  by  the  Body  599  petitions 
for  the  Orders.    The  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  was  conferred  on  412;  the 


42 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Money- 
earned. 

Number  of 
Conclaves. 


Attendance. 


A  3-ear  of 
days. 


Large 
Red  Cross 
Councils. 


New 
members. 


Stated 
Conclaves 
to  be 

niunbered. 


Twentieth 
Triennial. 


Escort  to 
the  Grand 
Commander. 


Ascension- 
day  services 
inaugurated. 


Order  of  the  Temple  upon  391;  and  Thirty  Thousand  and  Fifty  Dollars  were 
earned ;  or  a  total  of  Thirty  Thousand  Nine  Hundred  and  Thirty  Dollars  were 
received  for  the  Orders,  Life  Memberships  and  affiliation  fees. 

There  were  held,  in  1877,  sixty-three  Conclaves,  with  an  average  attendance 
of  54;  in  1878  sixty-one  Conclaves,  with  an  average  attendance  of  57;  in  1879 
sixty-three  Conclaves,  with  an  average  attendance  of  61 ;  in  1880  seventy-one 
Conclaves,  with  an  average  attendance  of  71,  or  a  greater  number  of  Conclaves 
per  year  each  year — being  largely  more  than  one  a  week — and  a  larger  attend- 
ance than  ever  before  or  since  known  in  the  history  of  the  Commandery. 

To  accomplish  these  and  other  results  Eminent  Commander  Cassette  cer- 
tainly must  have  given  more  than  a  year  of  consecutive  days  of  twenty-four 
hours  each,  to  the  Commandery  alone. 

During  his  incumbency  the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  was  frequently  conferred 
upon  from  twelve  to  more  than  forty  candidates  at  the  same  Conclave,  and  was 
witnessed  by  from  six  hundred  to  one  thousand  Sir  Knights,  who  hailed  from 
every  Grand  Jurisdiction  on  this  Continent. 

The  Grand  Officers  of  every  Grand  Jurisdiction  and  the  Officers  from  every 
Subordinate  Commandery  from  nine  contiguous  or  several  Grand  Jurisdictions, 
were  many  times  invited  to  attend  a  Red  Cross  Council  opened  by  Apollo 
Commander}',  and  chivalric  endeavor  and  unbounded  hospitality  continually 
gave  lustre  to  the  Beauseant  of  the  Commandery,  and  added  Three  Hundred 
and  Eighty-Four  new  members  to  the  Commandery  in  four  years,  or  twelve 
more  than  was  the  total  membership  of  the  Commandery  when  Eminent  Sir 
Cassette  was  first  elected  Commander  ;  which,  notwithstanding  depletions  from 
various  causes,  gave  it  an  active  membership  at  the  close  of  A.  D.,  1880,  of 
Six  Hundred  and  Eighty-Four  members;  making  it  the  largest  Subordinate 
Templar  Body  in  the  world ;  and  with  all  of  the  original  indebtedness  paid  beside. 

At  the  first  Stated  Conclave  after  the  annual  meeting,  held  December,  1876, 
the  Eminent  Commander  ordered  that  a  numerical  number  should  thereafter  be 
given  to  each  Stated  Conclave  upon  the  records,  dating  from  the  first  one  con- 
vened by  the  Commandery;  and  Tuesday,  December  19th,  1876,  the  784th 
Stated  Conclave  was  held. 

At  the  789th  Stated  Conclave  of  the  Commandery,  held  March  6th,  1877,  it 
was  determined  to  attend  the  Twentieth  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand 
Encampment  of  the  United  States,  to  be  held  in  the  city  of  Cleveland,  Chio, 
August  28th,  1877  ;  and  at  the  791st  Stated  Conclave,  held  April  3d,  the  official 
notification  from  Right  Eminent  Sir  Philander  Walker  Barclay.  Grand  Com- 
mander of  Illinois,  that  the  escort  tendered  to  him  by  Apollo  Commandery  for 
that  great  occasion  had  been  accepted,  v/as  duly  received. 

At  the  793rd  Stated  Conclave,  held  May  ist,  Very  Eminent  Sir  Rev.  Dr> 
Clinton  Locke  having  consented  to  officiate,  it  was  voted  to  attend  an  Ascension 
Day  service  at  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  on  Wabash  avenue,  May  loth,  and,  on 
the  day  designated,  Apollo  Commandery,  with  St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No. 
35  as  guest,  inaugurated  Ascension  Day  services  for  a  Templar  organization  in 
the  citv  of  Chicago. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


43 


Monday;  August  27th,  at  8  o'clock,  A.  M.,  all  preliminary  arrangements  having 
been  perfected,  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  No.  i,  fell  in,  and,  preceded  by  Nevans 
&  Kretlow's  Military  Band,  went  to  the  Tremont  House,  corner  of  Lake  and 
Dearborn  streets,  to  receive  and  escort  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights 
Templar  of  Illinois  to  the  Michigan  Southern  Railroad  depot,  where  they  took  Start  for 
a  special  train  for  the  city  of  Cleveland.  The  Forest  City  House  of  thAt  city  ^"  * 
had  been  definitely  engaged  for  the  accommodation  of  the  Commandery,  the 
previous  23d  of  March,  by  Eminent  Sirs  Cassette  and  Myers,  and,  upon  arrival, 
the  Commandery  found  quarters  thereat. 

Fully  one  hundred  and  thirty  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  were  in 
Cleveland,  although  but  one  hundred  and  seventeen,  exclusive  of  the  Grand 
Commandery  and  visiting  Sir  Knights,  were  upon  the  train  which  conveyed 
the  Commandery  to  that  city. 

Forty  ladies  (wives  and  daughters  of  the  Sir  Knights),  accompanied  the  Forty  ladies, 
command,  and  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Myers,  Treasurer,  paid  for  one  hundred  and 
seventy  persons  at  the  hotel.    The  following  is  the  Roster  of  the  Commandery  : 


Eminent  Sir  Norman  Tiieodore  Cassette,  Commander. 
Sir  Amos  Crannis,  Generalissimo. 
Sir  Gilbert  Mortimer  Holmes,  Captain  General. 
Sir  Laban  Beecher  Dixon,  Senior  Warden. 
Sir  William  Henry  Reid,  Junior  Warden. 
Sir  Reuben  T.  PettengiU,  Prelate. 
Eminent  Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers,  Treasurer. 
Sir  Charles  Egbert  Leonard,  Recorder. 
Sir  Abraham  Charles  Potter,  Standard  Bearer. 
Sir  Myron  Sanford  Crego,  Sword  Bearer. 
Sir  Samuel  Myrick  Henderson,  Warder. 
Sir  Moses  Nash  Fuller,  Captain  of  the  Guard. 
Sir  Richard  Robert  Trench,  Musical  Director. 
Sir  Charles  Edgar  Coburn,  Quartermaster. 
Sir  Oscar  William  Barrett,  Adjutant. 
Sir  Warren  Grafton  Purdy,  Right  Eminent  Sirs  Henry  CoUings  Ranney 

Sir  F.  E.  Morse,  and  Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney,  and 

Sir  Edwin  Burroughs  Rambo,  Aids,  Eminent  Sir  Walter  Augustus  Stevens, 

and  Sir  Knights 
Charles  Edward  Hurd, 
J.  C.  Humphrey, 
David  Gilbert  Hamilton, 
Edward  Chauncey  Hale, 
Frederick  Halla, 
John  J.  Hawilka, 
Benjamin  Franklin  Jones, 
Herbert  Milton  Kinsley, 
Harlan  Page  Kellogg, 
Albert  Christopher  Lamb, 

George  Washington  Lawrence,  Jabez  B.  Stubbs, 
Joseph  McGee  Lyons,  James  Saunders, 

William  Henry  Launder,  James  Swallow, 

Clinton  Locke,  Byron  Wagner  Shibley 

Henry  Oliver  Maynard,  Addison  Hardy  Tyler, 


Commandery 
Roster. 


Albert  William  Adcock, 
Peter  Magnus  Almini, 
Charles  L.  Anderson, 
Benjamin  Allen, 
Cyrene  H  Blakeley, 
William  Frederick  Blocki, 
Francis  Marius  Bradshaw 
John  S.  Bloomingston, 
■William  Lewis  Barnum, 
Orvis  Porter  Baker, 
William  Best, 
David  Francis  Crilly, 
David  Ray  Crego, 
Gardner  Spring  Chapin, 
Caleb  Clapp, 


Thomas  S.  Robinson, 
William  H.  Remington, 
Volney  Eddy  Rusco, 
David  Curtis  Roundy, 
Henry  A.  Rust, 
Sanford  Rankin, 
William  M.  Sage, 
Alexander  Fleming  Stevenson, 
John  William  Stephens, 
Charles  Marsh  Smith, 


44 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY. 


Roster 
continued. 


Charles  Melville  Clark, 
DeWitt  Clinton  Cregier, 
Lorenzo  Dow  Cleveland, 
James  Harry  Coyne, 
Harvey  Raymond  Caberey, 
George  Washington  Carson, 
Albert  Burton  Condit. 
Alson  Ellis  Clark, 
Hartwin  R.  Dutton, 
William  Tileston  DeLuce, 
A.  H.  Dudley, 
Philo  G.  Dodge, 
Lachlan  Grant, 
Bruno  Henry  Goll, 
John  Griffiths, 
Horatio  Nelson  Hurlbut, 
Thomas  Carey  Hatch, 
John  Clark  Hilton, 


More  would 
have  gone. 


Dispensation 
to  confer 
the  Order  of 
the  Temple. 


(roster  continued.) 

Marcus  Morton  Merrick, 
Nelson  Hayward  Merrill, 
Joseph  T.  Moulton, 
James  Kiron  Murphy, 
James  McNair, 
George  Appleton  Meech, 
James  McCune, 
John  Chamberlain  Neely, 
Henry  Disston  NichoUs, 
John  Wesle^r  Ostrander, 
Lockwood  Keeler  Osborne, 
James  Franklin  Olcott, 
Theodore  Henry  Patterson, 
George  Herman  Parker, 
Thomas  Clark  Penington, 
Charles  Lemuel  Pratt, 
James  Henry  Platto, 


Jerry  Schureman  Thempson, 
Henry  Stanton  Tiffany, 
John  Robinson  Trimmer, 
Edgar  Pray  Tobey, 

B.  Frank  Tilden, 

Jeremiah  Marshal]  Terwilliger, 
Charles  Ranney  Vandercook, 
George  Hakes  VanPelt, 

C.  H.  Vehmeyer, 
Robert  John  Walshe, 
C.  E.  Woolley, 
William  Bray  Webb, 
Augustus  Evans  Walker, 
John  LaFayette  Wade, 
Albert  Lucius  Woodruff, 
Joshua  Green  Woods, 
Andrew  Frost  West, 


At  Cleveland 
Ohio. 


A-n  unprece- 
dented 
honor. 


John  Henry  Stephens  Quick, 
and  the  following  visiting  Sir  Knights,  not  members  of  the  Grand  Commandery  : 
J.  B.  Kelley,  Joliet;  George  A.  Gardner,  Detroit ;  J.  F.  Dick,  C.  C.  Phillips,  A.  E.  Tyler,  E.  J. 
Dodge,  George  H.  Harlow,  J.  R.  Babcock,    F.  C.  Sheffield,  W.  E,  Mortimer,  W.  W.  Weaver, 
J.  W.  Burt,  W.  S.  Crosby  and  R.  B.  Smith,  Alton. 

A  larger  number  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  would  have  gone  had  not  the 
same  causes  which  had  so  depressed  them  for  several  previous  years  prevented. 
Notwithstanding  all  the  circumstances  however,  on  the  day  of  the  Grand  Parade, 
Apollo  Commandery  was  found  to  have  a  larger  number  of  swords  in  line  than 
any  other. 

By  virtue  of  a  Dispensation  granted  by  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Com- 
mander of  Illinois,  giving  permission  to  open  and  close  Apollo  Commandery, 
and  confer  the  Order  of  the  Temple  upon  Red  Cross  Knights  Jabez  Burton 
Stubbs,  and  Henry  Appleton  Rust,  outside  the  Grand  Jurisdiction  of  Illinois, 
and  a  Dispensation  from  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander,  Charles  C.  Keifer, 
of  Ohio,  permitting  the  opening,  closing  and  exemplification  of  the  Ritual  by 
the  Commandery  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  and  by  virtue  of  the  sanction  of  Most 
Eminent  Grand  Master  Hopkins  and  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United 
States,  Apollo  Commandery  opened  a  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  in 
the  Asylum  of  Oriental  Commandery,  No.  12,  Knights  Templars  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  with  Officers  and  Sir  Knights  as  by  the  roster  before  given  ;  and  con- 
ferred tlje  Order  of  the  Temple  upon  Jabez  Burton  Stubbs  and  Henry  Ap- 
pleton Rust,  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  Illustrious  Knights  of  the  Red  Cross, 
Oriental  Commandery,  of  Cleveland,  partially  conferred  the  Order  upon  Red 
Cross  Knight  Stubbs. 

The  privilege  of  taking  candidates  from  one  Grand  Jurisdiction  to  another, 
and  knighting  them  as  Knights  Templar  before  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the 
United  States,  is  an  unprecedented  honor,  and  the  just  pride  of  the  Commandery 
was  augmented  in  consequence  of  the  presence  of  the  Most  Eminent  Grand 
Master  and  the  Right  Eminent  Sir  Knights  composing  the  Grand  Encampment, 
who  witnessed  the  exemplification  of  the  Ritual  from  commencement  to  end, 
notwithstanding:  the  intense  heat. 


NO.   I,   KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


45 


The  Grand  Reception  given  by  the  Commandery  to  the  citizens  of  Cleveland  The  Grand 
and  visiting  Sir  Knights,  Tuesday  evening,  August  28th,  at  Messrs.  Sterling  & 
Co.'s  carpet  ware  rooms,  305  Euclid  avenue,  was  an  event  which  will  be  long 
remembered  by  all  who  were  in  attendance. 

The  following  is  quoted  from  the  Cleveland  Herald  of  August  29th  : 

The  preparations  were  elaborate,  and  the  Reception  given  by  Apollo  Commandery  was  one  of 
the  features  of  the  present  Conclave.  *  *  *  *  Early  in  the  evening  a  few  individuals 
were  seen  promenading  the  spacious  floors,  but  very  soon  *  *  *  *  the  congrega- 
tion became  a  sohd,  swaying  mass  of  people.  *  *  *  *  At  the  south  end  of  the  hall  a 
large  banner  bore  the  legend  :  "Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  extends  its 
hearty  greeting  to  the  citizens  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,"  and  about  8  o'clock  the  Commandery  itself 
was  led  into  the  building  by  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Cassette,  forming  a  double  line  from  north  to  south, 
*  *  *  Presently,  Oriental  Commandery,  No.  12,  of  Cleveland,  led  by  Eminent  Sir  Knight, 
Brenton  D.  Babcock,  entered  and  drew  up  in  line  facing  the  Chicago  Knights." 

Fraternal  greetings  were  exchanged,  after  which  the  following  programme 
was  continued  to  its  close  : 

PART  I.  Programme, 

Overture — The  Jolly  Robbers  Suppe 

Band. 

Waltz — Wine,  Women  and  Song  Strauss 

Band. 

Address  of  Welcome  By  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Commander  of  Apollo  Commandery 

Warble — Droit  et  Avant,  for  Male  Voices  Apollo  Commandery  Quartet 

PART  II. 

Selections — Opera,  Der  Freischutz.      Weber  Band 

C\  ^  -r-    r,  A      )  Quartet  for  Male  Voices.    Words  by  N.  T.  Cassette. 

UDE  TO  (CLEVELAND  j-       ^^^.^      ^  ^  Trcuch  Apollo  Commandery  Quartet 

Polka — Star  of  England.    LaMotte.   Solo  for  Cornet, Callie. 

Tar  Song.    Hatton  Apollo  Commandery  Quartet 

Selections — Opera,  Faust.    Gounod.  Band 

Serenade.    Kreutzer  Apollo  Commandery  Quartet 

"The  Noblest."    Schumann  Trombone  Solo,  Herman  Braun 

Waltz.     Vogel  Apollo  Commandery  Quartet 

Dansante. 

Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette  was  informed  immediately  prior  to  the  time 
he  commenced  his  address  of  welcome,  by  one  of  the  Sir  Knights,  who  had  made 

Twelve 

due  calculation  as  to  the  capacity  of  the  building,  that  he  was  about  to  talk  thousand 
to  fully  twelve  thousand  people.    He  spoke  substantially  as  follows  :  people. 

Ladies,  Gentlemen  and  Sir  Knights  :    I  interrupt  your  enjoyment  for  a  moment  to  do  Eminent 
that  which  to  me  is  one  of  the  most  pleasant  acts  of  my  life.    Apollo  Commandery,  of  Chicago,  Commander 
guests  of  the  city  of  Cleveland,  have,  by  the  courtesy  of  Oriental  Commandery,  become  the  hosts  ^^^^''g^'^ 
for  a  night,  and  I  appear  before  you  on  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery  to  express  to  you  the 
thanks  of  her  Sir  Knights  for  your  attendance  upon  this  occasion,  and  to  proffer  a  most  cordial  and 
heartfelt  welcome  to  the  citizens  of  Cleveland,  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  of  Templars,  the 
Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States  of  America,  to  Oriental  Commandery  of  Cleveland,  and 
to  all  Knights  Templar  who  have  honored  us  by  their  presence. 

There  are  gathered  together  in  this  city,  to-night,  thousands  who  have  come  from  the  South 
and  the  North,  and  from  the  East  and  the  West.  There  are  no  sectional  lines  in  our  Fraternity ! 
The  Beauseant  of  the  Order  of  Knights  Templar  floats  over  a  brotherhood  who  are  filled  with 
charity  towards  all,  and  who  entertain  malice  toward  none.  The  hand  of  the  artificer  rests  from 
toil ;  the  mechanic  has  ceased  his  labor ;  the  merchant  thinks  not  of  merchandise ;  the  physician 


46  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Cassette's 

Address 

continued. 


Eminent        has  dismissed  his  patients,  and  the  busy  brain  of  the  attorney  is  at  rest,  and  briefs,  arguments  and 
Commander    courts  are  things  of  the  past.    We  extend  an  open  hand  to  one  another,  and  feel,  when  hand 
"       grasps  hand,  that  the  voice  from  heaven  within  us  prompts  the  words  we  utter. 

To-day  has  been  one  of  glorious  pageantry.  More  than  two  hundred  banners,  emblazoned 
with  the  Red  Cross,  have  been  kissed  by  the  sunlight.  Two  hundred  Beauseants  have  floated 
over  thousands  of  nodding  plumes.  Strong  men  have  kept  step  to  music's  measured  beat,  and 
throbbing  hearts  have  felt  the  inspiration  of  hope  and  pride.    *       *       *  * 

The  average  human  ear  is  susceptible  of  no  more  than  nine  and  one-half  octaves  of  sound. 
Beautiful  birds  fly  high  up  in  the  air  and  warble  their  notes  ;  the  leaves  upon  the  trees  quiver  and 
flutter ;  upon  every  leaf  infinitessimal  insects  twitter  and  buzz ;  golden-tinted  grain  nods  and 
bends  in  the  distance ;  the  grass  of  the  field  waves  and  shimmers  in  the  sunlight;  the  white- 
capped  waves  rise  and  sink  with  the  force  of  the  wind,  way  out  near  the  horizon ;  each  drop  of 
water  contains  thousands  of  animalcule  in  motion,  and  the  very  air  we  breathe  is  full  of  life  and 
atomatic  particles;  the  whole  producing  sound  unheard  by  us.  All  nature  is  incessantly  in 
motion.  All  nature  is  in  harmony.  All  nature  is  producing  musical  sound.  All  nature  sings. 
The  planets  of  the  whole  universe  revolve  around  some  invisible  central  attractive  power  unknown 
to  us.  Electricity  pervades  the  universe,  and  yet  as  a  positive  quantity  is  unknown.  We  are, 
ofttimes,  compelled  to  act,  or  forced  to  desist  from  action,  by  unseen  influences.  Why,  I  ask, 
may  we  not  feel  that  a  system  of  nerve  centres  exists,  connecting  us  with  that  which  is  invisible 
to  our  sight,  and  what,  though  sound,  is  silence  to  us.  Let  us  hope  that  it  is  so,  and  that  by  a 
thousand  ways  unknown  to  us  may  be  telephoned  through  the  slender  nerves  such  a  grand  diapa- 
son of  harmony  that  our  souls  will  be  filled  with  melody  and  happiness  to-night  and  for  the 
morrow;  that  these  innumerable  influences  may  compel  us  to  rise  up  to  the  full  dignity  of  the 
hour  to  "  do  and  dare"  for  the  right ;  and  that  tidings  may  be  borne  far  away  over  the  broad 
world  of  what  the  Templars  of  America  have  sought  to  do  for  progress,  charity  and  manhood. 

*  *  *  *  *  The  Norsemen's  God,  Odin,  had  two  black  ravens,  one  upon  either 
shoulder.  One  was  named  Memory,  the  other,  Reflection.  They  were  continually  whispering 
in  his  ears.  If  we  have  come  to  this  beautiful  city  for  the  purpose  of  feeling  the  animal  magnetism 
of  numbers  ;  to  drink  deep  from  the  fountain  of  inspiration ;  to  weigh  purposes,  to  resolve  anew 
and  will  listen  to  the  raven,  Memory,  as  he  details  to  us  our  faults  and  foibles,  and  to  the  raven. 
Reflection,  as  he  dictates  the  means  for  improvement  in  the  future,  our  mission  here  will  bear 
fruitage  an  hundred  fold.  We  feel  that  we  have  come  to  a  marvelous  city.  We  have  stood  in  the 
halls  of  histronic  reminiscences,  and  were  reminded  of  Perry  and  his  memorable  victorj^  when 
our  fluttering  banners  were  carried  by  the  sculptured  stone  reared  to  his  memory  by  the  loving 
and  grateful  people  of  Cleveland.  We  find  our  love  for  the  beautiful  realized  when  we  take  cog- 
nizance of  her  palatial  residences,  her  churches,  her  public  buildings,  and  well  kept  avenues. 
Standing  upon  her  long  streets  we  feel  mindful  of  the  resistless  energies  which  shape  her  des- 
tinies. We  breathe  the  atmosphere  of  American  enterprise.  We  gaze  upon  what  seems  like  a 
boundless  ocean,  and  meet,  everywhere,  the  blue  water  bearing  upon  its  bosom  ships  loaded  with 
exchanges  for  "ingots  of  gold  and  ingots  of  silver."  *  *  *  *  We  hear  the  nervous 
click-clack  of  iron  wheels,  as  cars  loaded  with  people  or  merchandise  come  and  go  from  the 
depots,  and  filled  with  admiration,  we  make  obeisance  to  the  genius  of  human  intellect.  It  is  not 
difficult  for  us  who  live  in  Chicago  to  love  this  city  of  Cleveland.  Both  are  jewels  in  the  proud 
coronet  of  the  West ;  sister  cities  of  the  lakes— Cleveland  a  little  more  and  Chicago  a  little  less 
thanhalf  a  century  old.  *  *  *  *  Citizens  of  two  cities,  we  are  one  in  purpose  and  one 
in  the  hope  of  a  glorious  future. 


The 


It  was  said  that  the  Reception  was  of  moment  to  the  citizens  of  Cleveland, 
Reception  of  because  it  brought  its  people  together  again,  old  residents  and  new  ;  at  all 
moment.       g^gnts,  fraternization,  the  music  and  the  dance,  rendered  the  whole  night  en- 
joyable  and  one  which  can  never  be  forgotten  by  those  who  were  present. 

The  Commandery  spent  Thursday,  August  30th,  with  Band  and  Quartette 
ddzens^,^  *°   serenading  Citizens  and  Commanderies,  Grand  Commanderies,  Newspapers,  and 
etc.,  etc'.        ^i^g  distinguished  Frater  of  Apollo  No.  I,  Most  Eminent  Sir  Vincent  Lumbard 
Hurlbut,  Grand  Master  elect  of  the  Grand  Encampment. 


NO.    I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


47 


Months  previous  to  the  meeting  of  the  Grand  Encampment  in  Cleveland,  Sir 
Knights  from  Cleveland  who  were  visiting  in  Chicago,  said  to  the  officers  and  a 
few  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo,  that,  as  there  was  only  one  Commandery  in  Cleve-  ' 
land,  they  wished  that  Apollo  Commandery  would  give  such  aid  as  they  could  Apollo 
towards  making  the  Triennial  Conclave  enjoyable.    Inspired  by  fraternal  court-  ckveland^^^ 
esies  like  these  between  the  two  Commanderies  and  cities,  and  with  the  consent  Templars, 
of  the  Fraters  of  Cleveland,  Apollo  Commandery  endeavored  to  do  all  that  she 
could  to  render  the  Conclave  memorable,  and  returned  to  Chicago,  conscience 
acquitted;  and  with  the  knowledge  that  the  Grand  Encampment  had  determined 
to  hold  the  next  Triennial  Conclave  August,  A.  D.  1880,  in  the  city  of  Chicago. 
August  28th,  29th  and  30th,  1877,  were  glorious  days,  as  far  as  they  pertained  to  Glorious 
the  history  of  Apollo  Commandery,  and  clothed  her  Beauseant  with  new  fame.  ^^ys. 

At  the  80 [St  stated  Conclave,  held  September  4th,  1877,  the  following  with 
other  recitals  were  unanimously  adopted  : 

"We,  the  members  ofApolloCommanderystationed  at  Chicago,  believing  that  there  are  periods  ^ 
in  all  organizations,  so  marked  and  distinctive  in  their  character  and  influences  that,  to  neglect  a  aSpted.^'^ 
permanent  mention  of  their  importance  would  seem  unpardonable;  therefore,  desire  it  to  be  of 
record,  that  on  the  27th  of  August  last  we  made  a  most  gratifying  pilgrimage  to  the  city  of  Cleve- 
land, on  the  occasion  of  the  twentieth  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the 
United  States,  and  as  escort  to  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois.  This  pilgrimage,  so  happily 
inaugurated  and  so  successfully  carried  to  a  triumphant  conclusion,  bears  such  unequivocal  testi- 
mony to  the  unselfish  zeal  and  untiring  labors  of  our  Eminent  Commander,  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette, 
that  we  further  desire  to  place  upon  this  record  our  high  appreciation  of  his  distinguished  ability 
as  a  leader,  his  generous  devotion  to  the  interests  of  our  Order,  his  sacrifices  for  the  honor  and  wel- 
fare of  his  command,  and  those  prominent  quahties  of  a  christian  knight  and  gentleman  that  have 
characterized  his  official  intercourse  with  this  Commandery ;  and  we  further  express  the  convic- 
tion that  to  him  we  are  largely  indebted  for  the  present  advanced  position  that  this  Body  occupies 
in  Templar  Masonry."  ********** 

At  the  8o2d  stated  Conclave,  held  September  15th,  1877,  the  following  com- 
munication was  received,  read,  and  ordered  of  record,  to-wit: 

G-.AND  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  of  the  State  of  Illinois  Dismissal 
Headquarters  of  the  Grand  Commander,  of  Escort. 

Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Chicago,  August  31st,  1877. 

Commander  of  Apello  Commandery ,  Chicago  ; 
In  relieving  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar,  of  further  duty  as  escort  to  the 
Grand  Commandery,  it  affords  me  a  great  deal  of  pleasure,  in  behalf  of  the  Grand  Officers,  to  tes- 
tify to  their  uniform  courtesy,  knightly  bearing  and  attention  to  duty.  The  pilgrimage  just 
completed  constimtes  an  important  epoch  in  the  history  of  our  Grand  Jurisdiction,  and  we  cheer- 
fully accord  to  your  gallant  command  the  honor  of  contributing  in  a  great  degree  to  the  enviable 
pre-eminence  attained  by  the  Templars  of  Illinois.  For  your  own  personal  solicitude  in  our 
behalf,  and  the  attention  bestowed  by  your  Sir  Knights,  we  beg  you  to  accept  our  grateful 
acknowledgment.  p_     _  BARCLAY 

Grand  Commander. 

There  was  also  received,  read  and  ordered  of  record  at  this  Conclave  a  special 
order  of  the  Grand  Commander,  dated  at  Cairo,  Illinois,  September  ist,  1877,  Special 
addressed  to  all  subordinate  Commanderies  in  the  Grand  Jurisdiction ;  which,  Order^of 
among  other  things,  recites  the  following,  to-wit :  '  '  Commander 

"We  further  express  the  hope  that  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Commander  of  Apollo  ^^'"^'^y- 
Commandery,  No.  i,  stationed  at  Chicago,  together  with  the   Sir  Knights  of  this  distin- 
guished Command  who  acted  as  our  escort,  may  occupy   a  large  place  in  your  knightly 


48 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Thirty- 
second 
Annual 
Conclave, 
A.  D.,  1877. 


Commander's 
Annual 
Address, 
with 

resolution. 


Jewel 
refused. 


Unabated 
vigor. 


Progress  and 
prosperity 


Triennial 
Conclave 
of  1880, 
subscription. 


Committee 
raised. 


Committee 
appointed. 


Other 

Commandery 
Committees. 


At  the  807th  stated,  and  thirty-second  annual  Conclave  of  the  Commandery, 
held  December  4th,  1877,  at  which  there  were  present  the  Officers  and  one  hun- 
dred and  ninety-six  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo,  the  Eminent  Commander 
recommended  the  abolition  of  armory  box  rents;  and  at  the  808th  stated  Con- 
clave, held  Tuesday,  December  i8th,  1877,  the  Special  Committee,  consisting 
of  Right  Eminent  Sirs  Gurney,  Ranney,  and  Sir  George  A.  Meech,  to  whom 
was  referred  the  annual  address  of  the  Eminent  Commander,  made  report  as 
follows  : 

"  Your  Special  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  report  of  the  Eminent  Commander  Sir  Nor- 
man T.  Gassette.beg  to  report  that  such  a  report  is  but  an  insignificant  epitome  of  his  labors  in  behalf 
of  this  body  for  the  past  year,  and  to  those  who  have  been  familiar  with  his  untiring  efforts  in  the 
interests  of  this  Commandery  and  Templar  Masonry  it  is  but  a  meagre  representation  of  personal 
sacrifices  that  are  without  parallel  in  our  history  as  a  Commandery.  We  therefore  recommend 
that  the  report  in  full  be  spread  upon  our  Records  ;  that  we  concur  in  the  recommendation  of  our 
Commander  that  rents  for  armory  boxes  be  abolished  ;  *  *  *  *  and  that  our 
Generalissimo,  Captain  General  and  Treasurer  be  directed  to  procure  for  our  Commander  an 
official  Past  Officer's  Jewel  as  a  material  evidence  of  our  high  appreciation  of  his  worth  and 
ability  as  an  officer,  and  of  our  knightly  and  fraternal  regard." 

The  report  was  adopted  unanimously,  but  the  Eminent  Commander  begged 
of  all  that  no  money  be  expended  from  the  Treasury  to  carry  out  the  final  recom- 
mendation of  the  committee. 

The  general  work  of  the  Commandery  during  the  year  1878  continued  with 
unabated  vigor.  Although  it  was  immediately  subsequent  to  a  Triennial  Con- 
clave,  the  number  of  Companions  seeking  admission  into  the  Body  hardly 
decreased.  The  attendance  of  Sir  Knights  at  the  various  Conclaves  was  greater  j 
and  the  Red  Cross  Councils  were  equal  in  size  to  those  of  the  previous  year,  with 
quite  as  many  candidates,  twenty  having  the  Order  conferred  upon  them  January 
22d  of  that  year,  numerically  increasing  at  subsequent  Red  Cross  Conclaves ; 
and  prosperity  and  progress  were  within  the  confines  of  the  Commandery,  al- 
though the  financial  depression  grew  worse  and  worse. 

At  the  8iith  stated  Conclave,  held  January  29th,  1878,  the  Eminent  Com- 
mander urged  that  a  subscription  fund,  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  expense 
incident  to  the  Triennial  Conclave  in  1880,  be  made  by  the  Sir  Knights  indi- 
vidually; and  at  the  812th  stated  Conclave,  convened  February  19th,  1878, 
the  following  resolution  was  presented  by  Right  Eminent  Sir  Theodore  Tuthill 
Gurney,  and  adopted,  to-wit : 

"  Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  members  of  this  Commandery,  of  which  Eminent  Sir 
Norman  T.  Cassette  shall  be  chairman,  be  appointed  to  make  necessary  arrangements  for  the  Tri- 
ennial Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  to  be  held  in  this  city  in  1880,  with  power  to  fill 
vacancies  occurring  in  the  committee. 

And  at  the  814th  stated  Conclave,  held  March  19th,  1878,  the  Eminent  Com- 
mander appointed  Sirs  Dewitt  Clinton  Cregier,  Warren  Grafton  Purdy,  Oscar 
William  Barrett,  and  Charles  Edgar  Coburn,  to  constitute,  with  himself,  the  com- 
mittee  raised  by  the  resolution,  and  thus  in  a  preliminary  way  was  inaugurated  the 
preparation  for  the  great  event  to  follow. 

Upon  invitation  of  the  chairman  of  this  committee,  Chicago  Commandery, 
No.  19,  and  St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  35,  each  had  appointed  a  commit- 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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tee  of  like  number  to  act  in  conjunction  with  the  committee  previously  raised 
and  appointed  by  Apollo  Commandery;  both  notifying  the  Commandery  to  that 
effect  at  the  817th  stated  Conclave,  held  May  7th,  1878. 

At  the  special  Conclave  held  May  14th,  1878,  Apollo  Commandery  conferred 
the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  upon  thirty-six  Companions  ;  two  hundred  and  forty  Great 
members  of  the  Commandery  being  present,  and  before  eight  hundred  visiting  ^^<^  Cross. 
Sir  Knights  hailing  from  every  Grand  Jurisdiction.    It  was  a  memorable  event! 

Tuesday,  May  30th  of  the  same  year,  at  4  o'clock  p.  m.,  Apollo  Commandery, 
to  the  number  of  one  hundred  and  seventy,  beside  a  Reception  Committee  of 
twenty  Sir  Knights  officiating  at  the  church,  attended  Ascension-Day  services  at  Ascension- 
Grace  Episcopal  Church,  Sir  Knight  Rev.  Dr.  Clinton  Locke  preaching  the  ser-  ^^^^* 
mon  in  presence  of  a  vast  congregation  of  invited  guests. 

At  the  831st  stated,  and  thirty-third  annual  Conclave,  held  December  3d,  Thirty-third 
1878,  Eminent  Commander  Cassette,  in  his  annual  report,  recommended,  for  the  Annual, 
purpose  of  securing  a  larger  attendance  at  funerals,  that  the  Commandery  be 
divided  into  five  divisions,  etc.,  etc.,  and  that  a  Charity  Fund  be  created,  speci- 
fying the  exact  methods  for  carrying  out  his  recommendations ;  also  suggesting  -^g^^jj^ 
the  formation  of  a  Drill  Corps  from  the  Commandery,  and  asking  that  the  Trustees  mendation. 
be  instructed  and  empowered  to  beautify  the  burial  lot  belonging  to  the  Body  at 
Rose  Hill ;  and  at  the  832d  stated  Conclave,  held  Tuesday  evening,  December 
I7tb,  1878,  the  special  committee,  to  whom  the  report  of  the  Commander  was 
referred  for  consideration,  consisting  of  Sir  Dewitt  Clinton  Cregier,  Eminent 
Sir  Eugene  Burritt  Myers,  and  Right  Eminent  Sir  Henry  C.  Ranney  made  re- 
port through  its  Chairman,  which  resulted  in  the  adoption  of  certain  resolutions 
relative  to  funerals,  which  eventually  became  and  now  stand  as  By-Laws  of  the  Approved 
Commandery,  and  the  adoption  of  several  resolutions  pertaining  to  the  per-  ^^-[^^^ 
manent  establishment  of  a  Charity  Fund.    The  By-Laws,  relative  to  the  Charity 
Fund  as  amended  from  time  to  time,  are  as  follows  : 

OF  CHARITY  FUND.  Charity 

Section  i.  That  there  shall  be  an  amount  of  money  provided  which  shall  constitute  and  be  Fund, 
known  as  the  "  Charity  Fund  of  Apollo  Commandery,"  and  shall  consist  of  all  moneys  espe- 
cially set  apart  for  that  purpose  and  which  may  be  donated  therefor,  and  no  part  nor  the  whole 
of  such  fund  shall  be  used  for  any  purpose  whatever  except  that  for  which  it  is  designed,  namely, 
"  Charity;  "  Promded  however ,  that  upon  application  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Commandery  and  by 
a  concurrent  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present  at  any  stated  conclave,  the  whole  or  any 
part  of  said  Charity  Fund  may  be  loaned  to  the  General  Fund,  the  same  to  be  refunded  with  in- 
terest at  the  rate  of  6  per  cent,  per  annum.  Adopted  January  7,  1879.  Amended  March  2, 
1880. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  revenue  to  said  Charity  Fund  shall  be  derived  from  the  following  sources, 
viz.  :  5  per  cent,  of  the  gross  amount  of  the  annual  dues  which  may  be  collected  from  the  mem- 
bers ;  also  5  per  cent,  of  all  the  fees  accruing  from  the  conferring  of  the  Orders  and  for  member- 
ship in  the  Commandery,  and  also  all  voluntary  contributions.  The  Commandery  shall  also  pay 
into  said  fund  the  prescribed  interest  on  all  bonds  held  by  it  for  account  of  "  Life  Memberships." 

Sec.  3.  That  when  the  funds  in  said  Charity  Fund  shall  amount  to  five  hundred  dollars,  the 
Trustees  of  the  Commandery  shall  invest  the  same  in  United  States,  or  city,  or  other  interest 
bearing  bonds,  and  shall  thereafter  invest  in  like  manner  whenever  the  surplus  in  said  fund  shall 
amount  to  ^100.00.  When  the  principal  sum  of  said  Charity  Fund  shall  amount  to  ^2,000.00  then 
the  interest  only  accruing  thereon  may  be  used  for  charity  Provided  that  until  said  ^2,000.00 
shall  have  accumulated  the  aggregate  amount  of  money  disbursed  shall  at  no  time  exceed  one-half 
the  amount  standing  to  credit  of  said  "  Charity  Fund." 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Charity 

Fund 

continued. 


Debt 
reduced. 

Ascension- 

Dayservices, 

1879. 


Obligations 
to  Rev.  Dr. 
Locke. 


Emergency 
Conclave. 


Escort  of 
Oriental 
Consistory. 


Arrival  at 
Harvard, 


Pall  Bearers, 


Sec.  4.  That  all  moneys  appropriated  for  charity  shall  be  by  a  concurrent  vote  of  three-fourths 
of  the  members  present  at  any  stated  conclave  of  the  Commandery;  Provided,  that  the  first  three 
officers  of  the  Commandery  are  hereby  constituted  a  Charity  Committee,  and  may,  during  the 
interim  between  stated  conclaves,  disburse  for  purposes  of  charity  in  its  discretion  not  to  exceed 
^25.00  for  any  one  object, such  action  to  be  reported  at  the  next  conclave. 

Sec.  5.  That  all  moneys  herein  provided  for  the  Charity  Fund  shall  be  paid  over  quarterly 
commencing  on  the  first  day  of  April,  1879,  and  every  three  months  thereafter,  and  that  the  Knight 
Recorder  and  Treasurer  shall  keep  separate  detailed  accounts  of  all  receipts  and  disbursements  of 
said  fund,  and  make  separate  detailed  reports  of  the  Charity  Fund  whenever  required. 

Sec.  6.  That  from  and  after  this  date,  one-half  of  all  the  fees  received  from  "  Life  Member- 
ship "  be  paid  into  the  General  Fund  of  the  Commandery,  the  same  to  be  invested  in  such  interest 
bearing  bonds  as  the  Trustees  may  select;  and  the  other  half  to  be  paid  into  the  Charity  Fund  as, 
already  provided. 

Sec.  7.  That  the  Charity  Fund  be  charged  with  the  per  capita  tax  of  the  Grand  Commandery 
on  all  Sir  Knights  who  have  become  "Life  Members"  by  payment  of  the  regular  fee  since  the 
adoption  of  the  resolutions  of  the  Commandery  establishing  said  Charity  Fund. 

During  the  year  1879,  nothing  of  great  moment  occurred.-  within  or  without 
the  asylum  affecting  pre-eminently  the  even  tenor  of  the  Commandery,  and  con- 
ferring the  Orders  and  reduction  of  the  debt  was  the  rule. 

Thursday,  May  22,  at  4  o'clock  p.  m.,  the  Commandery  assembled  in  the 
Armory,  72  to  78  Monroe  street,  and  fell  in  for  the  purpose  of  attending  Ascen- 
sion-Day services,  escorting  both  Chicago  and  St.  Bernard  Commanderies  as 
guests  to  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  where  for  the  third  successive  year  Sir  Knight 
Reverend  Doctor  Clinton  Locke  preached  a  very  eloquent  and  instructive  ser- 
mon before  an  immense  congregation.  The  music  was  supplied  by  the  Episco- 
pal Cathedral  Choir. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  sermon,  Eminent  Commander  Cassette,  on  behalf 
of  the  Commandery,  presented  to  Reverend  Canon  Knowles,  for  permanent  use 
by  the  Choir,  a  Processional  Cross  as  a  slight  token  of  appreciation  for  rendered 
services,  after  which  event  the  lines  were  reformed  and  the  three  Commanderies, 
with  due  exchange  of  Knightly  courtesies,  returned  to  their  respective  asylums. 

Apollo  Commandery  and  the  Templars  of  Chicago  are  under  many  obliga- 
tions to  Very  Eminent  Sir  Reverend  Doctor  Clinton  Locke  and  to  the  Parish 
of  which  he  is  Rector,  for  many  kindly  acts. 

An  Emergency  Conclave  convened  Sunday,  June  22,  1879,  for  the  purpose  of 
attending  the  funeral  of  the  late  Frater  of  Apollo  Commandery  Sir  Gilbert  R. 
Smith,  33°,  at  Harvard,  111.  Pie  was  once  Recorder  and  Captain  General  of 
the  body. 

The  Officers  and  one  hundred  and  seventeen  Sir  Knights  of  the  Commandery 
were  escorted  to  the  Chicago  and  Northwestern  Railroad  depot  by  Oriental 
Consistory,  S.-.  P.*.  R.-.  S.*.,  under  command  of  the. Illustrious  Commander-in- 
Chief  John  O'Neil,  from  whence  they  went  by  special  train  to  their  destination. 

Upon  their  arrival  at  Harvard,  Calvary  Commandery  of  Woodstock  fell  into 
line,  when  the  whole  column  proceeded  to  the  late  residence  of  the  distinguished 
frater,  and  after  the  ceremonies  conducted  by  the  church  were  concluded,  Apollo 
Commandery  took  charge  of  the  remains,  the  following  Sir  Knights  acting  as  pall 
bearers:  Sirs  William  Lewis  Barnum,  Oscar  William  Barrett,  Herbert  Milton 
Kinsley,  Charles  Egbert  Leonard,  Orvis  Porter  Baker,  John  Clark  Hilton,  Gil- 
bert Mortimer  Holmes  and  Peter  Magnus  Almini. 


NO,   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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The  burial  ceremonies  were  peculiarly  impressive  and  were  conducted  in  Impressive 
presence  of  the  late  frater's  family,  a  large  concourse  of  people,  with  Blaney 
Lodge  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Chicago,  Harvard  Chapter  R.  A.  M.  of  Harvard, 
111  ,  and  Oriental  Consistory  S.-.  P.-.  R.-.  S.  of  Chicago  as  participants.  Sym- 
pathetic and  eulogistic  remarks  were  made  by  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cas- 
sette, Most  Worshipful  and  Right  Eminent  Sir  Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney,  Right 
Eminent  Sir  Hosmer  Allen  Johnson,  and  Most  Eminent  Sir  Vincent  Lumbard 
Hurlbut,  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States  of 
America.    Most  Worshipful  Sir  Knight  Dewitt  Clinton  Cregier,  after  having  puneral  of 
made  suitable  remarks,  then  deposited  an  evergreen  wreath  in  the  grave  for  Sir  Gilbert 
the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  A.  F,  and  A.  M.  of  Illinois;  the  Illustrious 
Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Consistory  placed  therein  a  purple  cross,  after  which, 
the  grave  having  been  filled  by  Sir  Knights,  the  Masonic  Bodies  and  friends 
sorrowfully  turned  away,  and  proceeded  back  to  their  respective  asylums  at 
Chicago  and  elsewhere. 

During  the  year  1879  six  Red  Cross  Councils  were  opened.    The  attendance  six 
of  members  at  three  of  these  respective  Conventions  was  as  follows  :  June  24th,  Cross 
117;  Septemberi7th,45o,andNovember  19th,  150.  The  number  ofvisitors  at  the 
three  Councils  named  was  as  follows  :  At  the  first  300,  at  the  second  400,  and  at 
the  third  nearly  200.    At  the  Red  Cross  Council  convened  September  17th,  a 
Past  Commanders  Jewell  was  presented  to  Sovereign  Master  Norman  Theodore  A  Jewel 
Cassette,  by  Right  Eminent  Sir  Henry  Collings  Ranney.    The  three  notable  K'^Sir^*° 
things  relative  to  this  Jewel  are:    First,  it  was  the  gift  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Gassette. 
Apollo  individually,  no  one  being  allowed  to  contribute  more  than  one  dollar; 
second,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  aggregate  membership  made  so  many 
givers,  the  whole  matter  had  been  kept  a  secret  from  the  recipient ;  and  third,  the 
gift  was  accompanied  with  a  roll  containing  the  autographs  of  the  donors,  in 
double  column  which  was  ten  feet  and  four  inches  long,  principally  if  not  wholly 
secured  by  that  noble,  conscientious,  and  true  hearted  Templar  Sir  Henry  Ed-  Sir  Henry  E. 
win  Metzger.  Metzger. 

December  2u,  A.  D.  1879,  the  855th  Stated  Conclave  and  annual  meeting  of  ^hirty- 
the  Commandery  convened,  when  it  was  ascertained  that  as  a  result  of  the  labor  fourth 
of  the  previous  years   superadding  the  work   of  the  year  just  past,   that  cSve. 
Apollo  Commandery  had  advanced  so  that  it  was  then,  as  it  is  nov/,  the  largest 
Masonic  Templar  Body  in  the  World;— numbering  five  hundred  and  sixty-seven  The  largest 
active  members  ;  that  a  Charity  Fund  had  been  actually  created,  by  reason  of  ii^thrwoHdr 
the  payment  thereto  of  three  hundred  and  fourteen  dollars  and  twenty-six 
cents;  thatthe  debt  had  been  reduced  besides  to  ;^3,8i6.25;  that  the  remaining 
assets  consisting  of  cash,  and  available  cash  assets  amounted  to  ^2,866.63,  and 
under  such  hopeful  circumstances  the  Commandery  was  about  to  commence  the 
year  1880,  and  the  year  of  the  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  * 
of  the  United  States  of  America, 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

A.   D.  1880. 

The  year  1880  was  a  very  eventful  one.  Eventful  by  reason  of  the  large 
A.  D..  1880.  ^^,es3ion  to  the  membership  of  the  Commandery ;  the  vast  amount  of 
labor  which  devolved  upon  officers  and  Sir  Knights,  in  consequence  of 
Ritualistic  work;  duties  incident  to  the  Triennial  Conclave;  the  ttmg  the 
apartments  occupied  by  the  Commandery  (at  an  expense  of  ^1,940.45) ;  the  full 
payment  of  the  whole  of  the  debt  which  was  owing  by  the  Command- 
-ery  when  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  was  first  elected  Commander;  and  because 
of  the  vast  amount  of  money  which  the  individual  Sir  Knights  had  contributed 
towards  defraying  the  expense  which  would  accrue  from  the  Tnenmal  Con- 

Reviewedby     Qn  the  afternoon  of  May  6th,  Apollo  Commandery,  Officers,  and  one  hundred 
Sandl?.°""  and  eighty  Sir  Knights,  with  Chicago  Commandery  No    19  and  St  Bernard 
Commandery  No.  35-  formed,  and  proceeded  to  the  Grand  Pacffic  Hotel ;  were 
reviewed  by  the  Grand  Commander,  and  then  proceeded,  escortmg  the  Grand 
Commandery  of  Illinois  and  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  Vincent  Lumbard 
Ascension.     Hurlbut  to  Central  Music  Hall,  where  Ascension-Day  services  were  held  under 
Day  services,  j^es  of  the  three  Chicago  Commanderies,  and  their  distmgmshed  guests. 

Avast  concourse  of  people  assembled,  many  being  unable  to  obtam  even  stand- 
ine  room  in  that  vast  auditorium. 
.  „  Sir  Kniglit  Reverend  Doctor  Hiram  W.  Thomas,  of  St.  Bernard  Command- 

t'l'if^n.  JlZloli  a  magnificent  discourse,  andthe  choirof  the  First  Baptist  Church, 
7ri.2:r  2Z  the  leadership  of  Frederick  W,  Root,  executed  the  musical  Programme. 

By  comparison  with  the  greatest  event  of  the  year,  unimportant  ones  sue 
ceeded  each  other  with  great  rapidity,  until  the  culmination  was  reached  in  the 
reception  and  entertainment  of  the  Grand  Encampment  and  vtsumg  S>r  Kn  ghts. 
.       As  the  history  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  I  Knights  Templars  would  be 
lll.lT''  tho     inc  nplete  without  a  summarisation  of  the  acts  she  performed  prior  to 
r--''"'   Id -during,  the  Twcnty^rst  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment 
commencing  August  17th,  1880,  and  it  being  quite  impossible  to  ">akeit  with- 
,  .   ourrrferrini  specifically  to  the  action  of  the  Committee  of  five  raised  by  the 
Work  of  the  ""'t  reierr  ng  p  ,  February  iQth,  1878,  of  which  Emi- 

CommitKe    Commandery  at  the  Stated  Conclave  held  i-eoruary  iy   ,  / 

nent  Sir  Norman  Theodore  Cassette,  the  Eminent  Commander,  was  Chairman, 

their  work  will  be  briefly  outlined.  „   ■      ^  c;,  r,«Ptte 

April  6th,  .878,  on  behalf  of  this  Committee  Eminent  Sir  Gasse  t 
indicted  a  letter  to  the  Eminent  Commanders  of  Chicago  and  St.  Ber 
natd  CoLanderies,  suggesting  that  Committees  of  like   number  from 


of  five. 


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each   of  those   Commanderies   should  be   appointed,  and  requested  that  ^ 

a  meeting  of  conference  should  be  held  at  the  Tremont  House  April  I2th,  Conference. 

1878,  at  4  o'clock  p.  M.,  for  consultation  and  organization  if  practicable;  and 

in  accord  therewith  the  Committees  appointed  by  the  several  Commanderies 

met  as  desired. 

The  fifteen  Sir  Knights  representing  the  three  Commanderies,  were  present, 
except  two,  who  were  unavoidably  absent. 

A  permanent  organization  was  effected  by  the  election  of   Eminent  Sir  The 
Norman  T.  Gassette,  of  Apollo  Commandery,  as  Chairman;  Eminent  Sir  Lester  Commiuee 
L.  Bond,  of  Chicago  Commandery,  as  Vice  Chairman  ;  Sir  George  M.  Moulton,  organized, 
of  St.  Bernard  Commandt-ry,  as  Secretary,  and  Eminent  Sirs  John  Crawford, 
and  John  S.  White,  of  St.  Bernard,  Sir  Warren  Grafton  Purdy,  of  Apollo,  and 
Sir  Malcolm  McDonald,  of  Chicago,  as  four  of  an  Executive  Committee  of 
seven,  of  which  the  three  first  officers  named,  constituted  three.    Save  the  sub- 
stitution of  Sir  William  H.  Thompson  for  Eminent  Sir  John  S.  White — both  of 
St.  Bernard  Commandery — the  officers   and  organization  were  in  no  wise 
changed  until  the  several  Committees  of  five,  were  discharged  by  the  several 
Commanderies,  and  the  Committee  as  a  whole  by  the  Grand  Commandery  of 
Illinois, 

It  will  be  observed  that  a  permanent  organization  of  the  Triennial  Commit- 
tee was  effected  two  years  and  four  months  preceding  the  date  the  Grand 
Encampment  was  to  assemble  in  Chicago,  and  was  organized  thus  early,  in 
consequence  of  the  vast  amount  of  work  which  would  be  required  of  them. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  rules  for  the  government  of  the  General  Triennial  , 

.  .  Adoption  of 

Committee  September  12th,  1 878,  the  interval  between  meetings  was  specified,  Rules. 

as  soon  as  the  work  should  really  have  been  commenced;  and  be  consecutively 

in  progress. 

Subsequent  to  the  adoption  of  the  rules  and  previous  to  the  year  1880,  the 
Committee  met  in  accordance  with  them,  unless  adjourned  to  a  specified  time, 
or  a  meeting  was  deferred  until  another  date  by  general  consent,  but  met 
monthly  during  that  year,  save  in  the  month  of  July,  when,  though  a  meeting 
was  duly  called,  it  was  adjourned  because  a  quorum  was  not  present,  and  in 
August,  when  the  night  of  the  regular  meeting  being  August  14th  (three  days  Regular 
before  the  Conclave),  all  being  deeply  engrossed  in  necessary  work,  it  was  M^^'^^'^S^* 
deemed  ill-advised  to  hold  a  formal  meeting,  as  all  the  members  being  at  head- 
quarters most  of  the  time,  were  fully  advised  in  the  premises. 

The  Triennial  Committee  held  twenty-four  meetings  in  the  twenty-eight 
months  of  its  existence ;  and  to  better  indicate  the  attention  and  usefulness  of  meetings^°"^ 
the  five  members  of  that  Committee  representing  Apollo  Commandery,  the  tab-  held, 
let  showing  their  attendance  is  given  on  the  succeeding  page,  and  is  correct  in 
all  iis  details  and  particularization : 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


1878. 

1879. 

880. 

bo 

April  12th. 

June  13th. 

August  6tl 

d, 

CO 

Oct.  nth. 

Nov.  8th. 

Dec.  13th. 

>^ 

rt 

2d  Meetin 

0 

-5 

24  Meetings 
held. 

Present. 

N.  T.  Cassette 

J: 

24  times. 

D.  C.  Cregier.. 

* 

39  " 

W.  G.  Purdy.. 

* 

16  " 

0.  W.  Barrett. 

15  " 

C.  E.  Coburn.. 

10  " 

Who  was 
present. 


Attendance 
as  a  whole. 


Refer  to  the 
above  tablet. 


Summary  of 


Record. 


An  asterisk  in  the  column  of  a  meeting  named,  exhibits  the  fact  that  the 
person  whose  name  it  follows,  was  present. 

The  ten  additional  members  of  the  Triennial  Committee  representing  Chi- 
cago and  St.  Bernard  Commanderies,  as  a  whole,  were  quite  as  regular  in  their 
attendance  at  the  Committee  meetings,  as  the  majority  of  those  representing 
Apollo  Commandery. 

For  the  completeness  of  history  a  brief  resume  of  all  the  important  legisla- 
tion of  the  Triennial  Committee  as  it  occurred  from  meeting  to  meeting,  is 
given,  and  anyone  interested  to  do  so,  by  referring  to  the  numerical  tablet  of 
attendance  given  above  can  ascertain  who  of  the  Committee  of  Apollo  Com- 
mandery was  present  when  any  course  was  determined  upon,  or  plan  adopted. 

For  the  year  1878:  at  the  first  meeting  (April  12th)  the  organization  took  place.  At  the  second 
meeting  (June  13th)  the  official  credentials  from  the  various  Commanderies  were  presented,  ac- 
cepted, a  Committee  on  Rules  for  the  government  of  the  Committee  was  appointed ;  and  a  Com- 
mittee was  also  delegated  to  confer  with  the  proprietors  of  the  various  hotels_  seeking  their 
engagement. 

At  the  third  meeting  {August  6th)  a  conference  was  had;  and  at  the  fourth  meeting  [^Q^- 
tember  12th)  the  Committee  before  appointed  for  such  purpose  reported  an  agreement  witli  the 
various  hotels ;  the  Committee  on  Rules  submitted  their  report,  which  was  adopted  ;  and  a  cir- 
cular letter  setting  forth  to  Commanderies  that  all  the  hotels  in  Chicago  had  been  engaged  with 
the  reasons  therefor  was  ordered  to  be  prepared. 

At  the  fifth  meeting  (October  nth)  the  draft  of  the  letter  ordered  at  the  previous  meeting 
was  presented  and  approved  ;  and  at  the  sixth  meeting  {^QV^vtCo&r  ^t'a)  the  minutes  were  read 
and  a  conference  had. 

At  the  seventh  meeting  (December  13th)  Nelson  Ludington,  Esq.,  President  of  the  Fifth  Na- 
tional Bank  was  elected  Treasurer  of  the  Committee,  and  then,  after  conference  the  Committee 
adjourned. 

For  the  year  1879  :  at  the  first  meeting  {Us.y  9th)  the  Committee  appointed  various  needed 
Sub-Committees  to  serve  until  the  end  of  the  Conclave  ;  in  each  case  naming  as  chairman  a  mem- 
ber of  the-Triennial  Committee  as  far  as  possible ;  the  Executive  Committee  were  asked  to  define 
the  duties  of  the  several  Committees  appointed  on  motion  of  Sir  Cregier;  and  by  vote  of  the 
Triennial  Committee  were  made  Ex-Ofificlo  members  of  all  appointed  Committees ;    and  the 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


55 


methods  for  receiving  and  disbursing  moneys  was  determined  upon ;  it  was  also  determined 
besides,  that  all  Sub-Committees  should  first  audit  the  bills  contracted,  for  work  done  under 
their  supervision,  before  handing  them  to  the  Triennial  Committee  for  final  audit  and  payment. 

At  the  second  tneeting  (June  13th)  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  was  on  motion  of  Sir  , 
Cregier,  officially  invited  to  send  from  time  to  time,  any  suggestions  he  might  have  to  make  to 
the  Committee,  and  several  additional  Committees  were  appointed. 

At  the  third  vieeting  (June  28th)  the  Auxiliary  Triennial  Committee  was  appointed,  and  Of  the 
the  general  plan  for  the  entertainment  of  the  Grand  Encampment  and  Templar  guests— the 
ayes  and  noes  being  called— was  unanimously  adopted ;  and  on  motion  of  Sir  Cregier  it  was 
determined  to  take  subscriptions  of  money  from  citizens,  informing  them,  that  $75,000  would 
be  required  to  carry  out  the  plans  of  the  Committee,  and  pledging,  that  should  there  be  a  sur- 
plus it  would  be  divided  and  returned  pro  rata. 

At  the  fourth  meeting  (July  nth)  the  Executive  Committee  reported  a  draft  of  a  letter  of 
notification  to  all  who  had  been  appointed  upon  Sub-Committees,  which  was  ordered  printed 
and  mailed;  the  Chairman  was  authorized  to  procure  clerical  assistance  ;  the  duties  of  the  many  Triennial 
Sub-Committees  were  generally  defined;  and  the  proper  methods  for  duly  referring  matters  to 
them  was  specifically  and  categorically  named,  and  the  General  Invitation  to  Grand  and 
Subordinate  Commanderies  was  ordered  to  be  dated  August  17th,  1879. 

At  the  fifth  meeting  (August  2d)  the  ornamental  and  elaborately  engraved  heading  for  the  Gen- 
eral Invitation  was  adopted,  and  the  engraving  of  the  plan  of  the  building  for  the  sessions  of 
the  Grand  Encampment,  and  the  camp  on  the  Lake  Front  Park  which  had  been  previously 
determined  upon  through  the  suggestion  and  on  motion  of  Sir  Cregier,  was  ordered  to  be  procured 
for  use  on  the  fourth  page  of  the  General  Invitation. 

At  the  sixth  meeting,  the  necessary  changes  made  in  Committees,  in  consequence  of  declina. 
tions,  were  reported,  and  new  names  substituted;  and  at  tlie  seventh  meeting,  t\\&  draft  of  a  Committee 
circular  letter  apologizing  for  the  delay  and  non-.sending  of  the  Official  Invitation  was  ordered 
printed  and  mailed  ;  and  the  Chairman  was  instructed  to  prepare  a  report  of  the  doings  of  the 
Committee  up  to  date  for  use  in  the  Grand  Commandery  should  such  report  be  required.  {Vide 
Grand  Commandery  Proceedings  1879,  page  50.) 

At  the  seventh  meetingS\x  Cregier  was  appointed  to  wait  upon  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master 
Hurlbut  and  ask  him  to  attend  the  present  session  of  the  Committee,  who,  upon  his  return 
from  a  visit  to  the  Grand  Master  reported  him  too  ill  to  be  present;  whereupon,  it  was  voted 
that  an  official  communication  should  be  addressed  to  him  asking  him  to  be  present  at  the  next  for  the  years 
meeting  of  the  Committee  which  would  be  held  November  17th. 

At  the  eighth  meeting,  a  letter  received  from  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master— in  answer  to 
the  before  mentioned  official  communication,— was  read  and  placed  on  file,  and  on  motion  the 
Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  Illinois  was  asked  to  meet  with  the  Committee  at  as  early 
a  day  as  possible,  and  it  was  determined  that  the  sending  out  of  the  Official  Invitation  should 
be  deferred  until  such  meeting. 

At  the  ninth  meeting  held  November  24th,  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  Morse  was 
present  in  response  to  the  invitation  of  the  Committee;  when  on  motion  of  Sir  Cregier  it  was  1878 and  1879 
resolved  "  That  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  and  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  be 
officially  requested  to  invest  the  Triennial  Committee  with  full  authority  to  prepare  and  carry 
out  the  necessary  arrangements  pertaining  to  the  Conclave." 

At  the  tenth  jneeting,  the  Chairman  read  a  communication  from  the  Grand  Commander  author- 
izing the  Committee  to  use  whatever  power  he  had  for  carrying  on  the  work  pertaining  to  the 
Conclave,  and  also  submitted  a  communication  from  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  in  answer 
to  the  letter  from  the  Committee,  both  of  which  were  ordered  of  record;  whereupon  the  Chair,  to  A.  D.  1880 
man  presented  the  partial  draft  of  the  Official  Invitation--first,  second,  and  fourth  pages  known 
to  the  Templar  world  ;  which,  after  amendments,  was  unanimously  adopted  ;  and  at  the  eleventli 
■meeting,  the  third  page  of  the  document— hotel  page,  was  read,  approved,  and  three  thousand 
extra  copies  of  that  one  page  ordered  to  be  printed  separately  ;  and  then,  on  motion  of  Eminent 
Sir  Woodman  the  Committee  proceeded  to  elect  a  Commander  for  the  Escort  on  the  day  of  the 
Grand  Parade,  who  should  be  clothed  with  authority  as  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Escort. 
The  election  resulted  in  the  selection  of  Eminent  Sir  No  rman  Theodore  Cassette,  Eminent  Com-  jjj(-.jygjyg 
mander  of  Apollo  Commandery  ;  and  it  was  then  resolved  to  officially  communicate  the  result  of 
their  deliberations  to  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  Illinois  and  the  Most  Eminent 
Giand  Master  of  Templars,  U.  S.  A,,  asking  their  sanction  and  concurrence. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


For  the  year  1880 :  at  the  first  ^neetzng- held  the  minutes  of  all  previous  meetings  up  to  the 
close  of  the  year  1879  were  read  and  approved ;  a  communication  was  received  from  the  Right 
Eminent  Grand  Commander  acknowledgmg  the  receipt  of  the  Committees  Official  Communication 
announcing  the  election  of  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  as  Commander  for  the  day  of  the  Grand  Parade, 
and  one  was  also  received  from  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  to  the  same  effect.  The  letter 
of  the  Grand  Commander  was  accompanied  by  a  commission  in  due  form  approving  the  ap- 
pointment, which  had  also  been  concurred  in  by  all  present  and  past  Grand  Officers  of  the 
Grand  Commandery,  who  could  be  present  at  a  meeting  held  at  the  Gardner  House  for  such 
purpose  ;  the  Executive  Committee  then  made  report  of  all  their  doings  relative  to  the  execution 
of  the  will  of  the  Triennial  Committee  to  date,  reporting  every  contract  of  whatsoever  kind  and 
nature,  covering  in  every  way  the  total  expenditure  to  be  made  as  far  as  they  had  knowledge, 
in  carrying  out  the  plans  of  the  Committee  to  the  close  of  the  Conclave,  authorized  by  either 
the  Triennial  or  Executive  Committee,  or  Chairman;  and  on  motion  of  Sir  W.  H.  Thompson 
the  acts  and  contracts  made  were  approved. 

At  t/ie  second  meetzn^held,  no  business  was  transacted ;  and  at  the  tkzrd  meeizn£- the  design 
for  the  Triennial  Committee  Badge  was  approved  and  fifteen  ordered. 

Ai  the  fourth  meeting  the  Committee  were  unofficially  notified  that  the  Most  Eminent  Grand 
Master  approved  of  the  Official  Invitation,  blanks- etc.— page  by  page,— he  having  examined 
the  same,  as  well  as  the  line  of  march  deterrnined  upon  by  the  Committee  for  the  Grand  Parade  ; 
and  that  if  reports  of  Committees  were  reliable,  everything  pertaining  to  the  Conclave  was 
progressing  satisfactorily. 

The  fifth  and  sixth  meetings  were  unimportant,  being  held  for  conference. 

Executive         The  Executive  Committee,  of  which  Eminent  Commander  Cassette  was 

Triennial  Chairman  ar.d  Sir  Warren  Grafton  Purdy  a  member,  was  almost  in  constant  ses- 
Committee. 

sion  from  June,  1879,  until  the  close  of  the  Conclave;  and  for  months  the 
Chairman  gave  his  whole  time,  always  taking  the  1:15  o'clock  A.  M.  car  home. 
Thedutiesof.  The  duties  of  this  Executive  Committee,  were  principally  supervisory  ones,  and 
consisted  in  carrying  out  the  plans  of  the  Triennial  Committee  through  the 
various  Sub-Committees  which  they  had  appointed;  in  strict  accord  with  the 
rules  made  and  adopted  by  them  for  that  purpose;  and  the  truth  of  history  de- 
mands that  it  should  be  emphatically  stated  herein  that  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, with  rare  unanimity,  and  as  prudently  and  carefully  as  possible,  en- 
deavored to  execute  whatever  tasks  the  Triennial  Committee  imposed  upon 
them  to  the  best  of  their  ability, 
j^^^^^  The  principal  money -spending  Committees  had  for  Chairmen,  members  of 

spending.  the  Triennial  Committee  who  ought  to  have  been  cognizant  of,  and  obeyed  the 
rules  they  themselves  had  adopted  ;  and  who  should  have  been  thoroughly 
advised  regarding  the  total  amount  of  money  in  hand,  or  to  be  had  prospectively ; 
and  the  limit  of  expenditure  beyond  which  none  should  go ;  hence,  all  felt  less 
concern  than  they  otherwise  would  have  felt,  because  without  a  formal  meeting 
the  whole  Triennial  Committee  was  in  constant  session  every  day  the  work  was 
in  progress,  each  member  of  that  committee  being  either  a  Chairman  or  member 
of  controlling  committees.  Had  no  greater  sum  of  money  been  expended  than 
was  authorized  by  the  Chairman,  or  the  Triennial  or  Executive  Triennial  Com- 
Th      h   Id  allowing  ^5,000  for  unknown  bills — contingencies — there  would  have 

have  been  a    been  a  surplus,  measured  by  the  ^75,000  first  asked,  of  ^3,137,  and  by  the 
surplus.        ^94,059  47  of  final  total  receipts,  ^22,196.43  ;  to  have  been  returned  pro  rata  to 
the  original  donors.    Neither  the  Triennial  nor  Executive  Triennial  Committee 
or  their  Chairman,  in  formal  session  or  otherwise,  had  any  power  to  control 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


the  ultimate  amount  expended  save  by  an  absolute  refusal  to  pay  bills,  author- 
itatively or  unauthoritatively  contracted,  otherwise  than  that  which  they 
exercised  in  making  appropriations  and.  contracts. 

The  expenditures  in  consequence  of  the  camp  exceeded  the  income  there-  rj.^^^^^^ 
from  ^13,020,43,  owing  to  the  impossibility  of  having  the  Sir  Knight  manage  it  expense.^ 
who  had  been  first  chosen,  and  who  was  conversant  with  all  the  details  relative 
to  it  from  its  commencement. 

Notwithstanding  the  almost  superhuman  labors  of  Sir  Knight  Metzger  who  Great  labor 
was  unexpectedly  called  upon  to  do  this  work,  and  a  few  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo 
who  worked  to  exhaustion,  but  who,  nevertheless,  for  lack  of  sufficient  help,  g. 
were  unable  to  attend  to  the  collection  of  all  that  fell  due  for  meals  and 
tentage,  and  for  like  reason  were  unable  to  compel  a  very  much  less  number  of 
colored  camp  employees  than  were  hired  to  do  the  work  they  ought  to  have  Knights 
done,  the  receipts  were  decreased,  and  the  expense  increased.    Owing,  also, 
to  the  tremendous  crowds  of  people  trying  to  get  into  the  camp,  the  militia  ^ 
were  called  upon  to  prevent  it,  and  to  prevent  thievery,  a  greater  number  of 
PiuKcrton's  police  were  engaged  than  it  was  ever  dreamed  to  employ,  all  of 
which  unlooked  for  contingencies  inordinately  increased  the  expense.     We  unavailing, 
know  that  Sirs  Henry  S.  Tiffany,  James  M.  Whitehead,  Frank  H.  Tower, 
Henry  H.  Hobbs,  John  S.  Bloomingston,  and  many  other  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo 
Commandery,  although  some  of  them  were  not  regular  members  of  the  Camp  '^^oughthey 
Committee,  worked  day  and  night  to  perform  the  almost  thankless  duties,  which 
devolved  upon  those  who  were  trying  to  make  the  occupants  of  the  camp  com-  worked  day 
fortable,  on  the  one  hand  and  on  the  other,  to  collect  what  was  justly  due, 
and  economically  conduct  the  work.    We  know  that  for  forty-eight  hours  they 
hardly  slept  or  ate,  and  that  they  did  not  have  their  boots  off.  and  night. 

We  wish  we  had  the  names  of  all  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery 
who  so  heroically  worked  to  render  the  camp  what  it  proved  to  be, — notwith- 
standing unpropitious  events, — one  of  the  grandest  affairs  ever  known  in  con-  A  success, 
nection  with  a  Triennial  Conclave. 

The  few  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo,  who  alone  were  individually  responsible  to  Obligations, 
the  Government  in  a  large  penal  sum  of  money  for  the  safety  of  all  the  Govern- 
ment property  in  use  in  the  camp,  and  also  for  all  the  required  merchandise, 
feel  under  everlasting  obligations  to  them  all,  be  they  known,  or  unknown. 

Some  of  the  Committees  from  sheer  necessity  expended  more  money  than  Appropria- 
was  appropriated;  and  articles  were  purchased  besides  by  those  who  had  not  tions  ^  ^ 
the  slightest  authority  to  buy  them,  but  the  honor  of  Knighthood  demanded 
that  all  bills  contracted  by  Templars,  whether  authorized  or  not,  should  be  paid  ; 
and  consequently  they  were  paid. 

It  is  a  fact  worthy  of  record  that  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i,  Knights  Temp-  Honor  of 
lar,  like  a  true  philosopher,  considered  her  honor,  duty  and  chivalry  of  supreme  impOTTance. 
importance,  and  hence,  without  cavil,  honored  all  who  had  so  conscientiously 
labored  for  Templarism  and  paid  her  pro  rata. 

These  statements  which  a  history  of  Apollo  Commandery  require,  and  which  por  those 
are  indicative  of  her  acts  during  the  Conclave,  certainly  will  not  be  unprofit-  who  think, 
able  food  for  reflection  to  those  who  think. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Money- 
raising. 

The 

Templars 
before  the 
citizens. 


A  citizen 
treasurer. 


Yes,  a 

National 

Bank. 


The  willing- 
ness of  the 
Sir  Knights 
of  Apollo 
to  give. 


Sir  Metzger 


^25,000  paid 


Donation 
increased. 


It  surely  is  made  manifest  that  the  Committee  of  five  appointed  by  Apollo 
Commandery  to  serve  upon  the  Triennial  Committee,  endeavored  to  do  their 
duty,  and  chivalrously  were  part  and  parcel  of  every  act  of  legislation,  and  were 
fully  cognizant  of  every  plan,  and  co-executors  of  every  design  of  the  Committee 
until  the  end. 

In  the  matter  of  raising  the  great  sum  of  money  necessary  to  defray  the  expenses 
of  the  Conclave,  the  Committee  had  no  intention  of  going  to  the  citizens  of  Chicago 
seeking  subscriptions  until  it  should  have  been  demonstrated  beyond  dispute 
that  the  Templars  of  Chicago  were  not  trying  to  act  the  leech  upon  their  gen- 
erosity by  expecting  that  they  would  give  the  whole  of  the  ^75,000  first  asked; 
and  hence  it  was  deemed  but  just  and  prudent  to  first  commence  asking  subscrip- 
tions  from  the  Templars  themselves,  the  Committee  feeling  confident  that  they 
would  individually,  and  dona  fide,  from  their  private  means  enable  the  three  Com- 
manderies  to  which  they  belonged  to  pay  into  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer,  Nel- 
son Ludington,  ^25,000,  or  one-third  part  of  the  required  amount,  and  which 
would  be  ^25.00  per  capita,  for  all  Templars  resident  of  Chicago. 

It  will  be  observed  that  a  citizen,  who  was  not  a  Templar,  had  been 
chosen  Treasurer,  and  practically  a  National  Bank— Mr.  Ludington  having 
made  the  bank  responsible  for  the  funds  raised.  This  was  deemed  best  for  two 
reasons :  First,  on  account  of  the  large  amount  citizens  were  expected  to  give, 
and  second,  because  of  the  recent  decisions  of  the  courts  wherein  it  was  held 
that  a  bank  was  secondarily  responsible  for  moneys  checked  out  by  a  Treasurer 
unless  they  knew  that  moneys  were  paid  to  the  drawee  of  a  check  for  the  uses 
of  the  fund  from  which  it  was  drawn,  thereby  compelling  the  bank  to  be  con- 
versant with  all  the  essential  facts  of  the  transaction. 

At  the  86oth  Stated  Conclave  of  Apollo  Commandery,  held  February 
17th,  1880,  the  first  real  effort  to  carry  out  the  thought  of  the  commit- 
tee, and  reduce  to  subscriptions  the  willingness  of  the  Sir  Knights  of 
Apollo  to  give  towards  defraying  the  expense  of  the  Triennial  Conclave  was 
made,  and  after  explanatory  remarks  had  been  made  by  the  Eminent  Comman- 
der, Norman  Theodore  Cassette,  Chairman  of  the  Triennial  Committee,  the 
one  hundred  and  fifty  Sir  Knights  present  promptly  subscribed  $3,660.  The 
work  of  visiting  the  Sir  Knights  who  were  not  present,  seeking  subscriptions  in 
augmentation  of  the  auspicious  commencement  made,  devolved  upon  Sir 
Knight  Henry  E.  Metzger,  who  devoted  energy,  patience,  genial  char- 
acteristics, time  and  love  for  Apollo  Commandery  and  Templarism,  to  ac- 
complish the  task  set  before  him,  and  with  complete  success. 

June  9th,  1880,  Apollo  Commandery  deposited  ^12,825  with  the  Treasurer, 
thereby  making  up  the  full  $25,000;  Chicago  and  St  Bernard  Commanderies 
having  a  day  or  two  previous  deposited  their  pro  rata  of  the  amount. 

Subsequently  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  increased  their  donation 
to  $15,926,  or  to  more  than  $31  a  man  for  every  resident  member,  realizing,  we 
believe,  an  amount  from  giving  by  a  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar,  which 
is  without  precedent  for  such  an  object. 


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In  addition  to  the  great  amount  given  by  the  Sir  Knights  individually,  the  Amount 
Eminent  Commander  and  Chairman  of  the  Triennial  Committee,  aided  by  an  ApoUo!^ 
extensive  acquaintance,  energy,  and  the  warm  esteem  in  which  he  has  ever  been 
held  in  the  City  of  Chicago,  personally  secured  subscriptions  amounting  to^iS,- 
1 20.00,  thereby  aggregating  the  grand  total  of  money  donated  by  Sir  Knights 
of  Apollo  Commandery  and  secured  by  the  Commander,  of  Thirty-four  Thous- 
and and  Forty-six  Dollars  and  Sixty  Cents,  besides  other  amounts  which  were 
secured  by  Sir  Knights  of  the  Commandery  who  were  members  of  the  Finance 
Committee. 

More  than  three  hundred  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  worked  on  The  number 
committees,  and  the  rest  of  her  membership  would  have  been  willing  to  devote.  Committees, 
some  more  and  some  less  time,  in  hke  service  had  not  the  allotment,  one  to 
each  one  of  the  three  Chicago  Commanderies,  pro  rata,  prevented. 

The  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  also  did  noble  service  in  the  collective  and  indi-  Hospitality, 
vidual  hospitalities  which  they  extended. 

They  performed  escort  duty  mounted  and  afoot  beside,  until  exhausted  ;  Escort  duty, 
and  on  the  day  of  the  grand  parade  fully  three  hundred  and  fifty  Sir  Knights 
notwithstanding  the  arduous  duties  of  previous  days,  covered  every  step  of  line 
of  march  laid  down  in  the  General  Order  of  the  Eminent  Commandant  of  the 
Lines,  though  the  day  was  excessively  hot ;  and  were  determined  to  do  so  what-  The  Parade, 
ever  the  consequences  to  themselves  might  be,  because  of  the  Commandery 
Esprit  du  Corps,  and  the  love  they  bore  their  Eminent  Commander. 

It  is  well  known  that  Apollo  No.  i  was  at  the  Rendezvous,  corner  of  Lake  Ready 
Street  and  Wabash  Avenue,  promptly  at  8  o'clock  A.  M.,  and  that  they  were  ^° 
ready  to  move  at  8:30  o'clock,  as  designated  in  the  General  Order  of  the 
Eminent  Commandant  of  the  Lines. 

No  Commandery  in  the  column  made  a  better  appearance,  and  on  the  march  Appearance. 
"  Company  99,"  which  had  been  drilled  by  Sir  David  Ray  Crego,  the  excellent 
tactician;  and  in  fact  the  v/hole  Commandery  had  the  stride  and  military  bear- 
ing of  veterans,  and  did  honor  to  Sir  Samuel  Myrick  Henderson,  Captain  Gen-  Sir  Captain 
eral,  one  of  the  very  best  natural  military  officers  who  ever  drew  a  sword.  Henderson. 

The  Commandery  were  signally  honored  besides,  because  their  Eminent  Com-  Honored, 
mander  had  been  chosen  to  command  that  Grand  Column  on  the  day  of  the  great 
parade,  and  for  the  reason  that  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  of  the  August 
Templar  Body  they  were  escorting,  was  a  member  of  Apollo  No.  i  K.  T. 

As  the  years  go  by  and  it  is  fully  realized  that  because  of  geographical  location  -  , 

°      '      .  •'  b     ta     f  As  the  years 

and  the  lame  for  hospitality  which  all  the  Sir  Knights  of  Chicago  had  from  go  by,  etc. 
merit  acquired,  that  a  multitude  which  is  unparalled  in  the  annals  of  any  city 
came  to  Chicago;  that  all  were  housed  as  well  as  the  capacity  of  the  city  would 
permit;  that  all  things  which  could  be  done  by  Fraters  for  the  comfort  and 
entertainment  of  visiting  Sir  Knights  and  others  was  done  without  stint ;  we 
believe  that  the  memory  of  any  lack  of  efficiency  as  to  execution  of  details  by 
sub-committees ;  the  excessive  hot  weather  and  incident  discomforts  experienced, 
and  the  avarice  exhibited  by  those  over  whom  the  Templars  had  no  control, 
will  fade  into  insignificance  when  compared  with  the  success  of  that  great 


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Success  of 
the  great 
Conclave. 


The  honor 
due. 


Montjoie 
Commandery, 


Thirty-fifth 
Annual. 


End  of  the 

second 

epoch. 

Original  debt 
paid,  etc. 


Membership. 


Sir  Amos 
Graimis 
elected 
Commander. 


Conclave;  and  that  the  boundless  good-heartedness,  generous  hospitalities, 
fraternal  solicitude  and  untiring  services  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Com- 
mandery and  Chicago,  coupled  with  the  cognizance  of  the  fact  that  more  was 
done  than  was  ever  promised,  will  crowd  upon  the  mind  of  Fratres  who  were 
in  the  City  of  Chicago  upon  that  momentous  occasion;  and  that  the  pages  of 
memory  upon  which  are  inscribed  a  summarization  of  the  events  surrounding 
the  Twenty-first  Triennial  Conclave  of  Knights  Templar  will  grow  resplendent, 
and  just  minded  Knights  Templar  the  world  over  will  accord  the  honor  due  to 
their  Fraters  of  Chicago,  and  that  the  record  upon  which  are  inscribed  the  acts 
of  Apollo  Commandery  upon  that  grand  occasion  will  be  acknowledged  to  be 
the  brightest  known  in  her  annals. 

At  the  873d  Stated  Conclave,  held  September  21th,  1880,  Apollo  Command- 
ery  recommended  the  petition  of  certain  Sir  Knights  to  the  Right  Eminent 
Grand  Commander  asking  a  Dispensation  to  form  and  open  a  Commandery  in 
the  city  of  Chicago  under  the  name  of  Montjoie.  The  Sir  Knights  whose 
names  appeared  upon  the  petition  were  all  of  them  a  part  of  the  Staff  of  the 
Eminent  Commandant  of  the  Lines  on  the  day  of  the  Triennial  Conclave  parade, 
and  save  two,  all  of  the  charter  members  had  been  Knighted  Templars  by  him 
in  Apollo  Commandery. 

The  878th  Stated,  and  the  35th  Annual,  Conclave  convened  December  7th, 
1880,  with  the  regular  officers  in  their  stations  and  with  204  Sir  Knights  of  the 
Commandery  present  besides  visitors. 

The  end  of  the  busy  year  had  come  and  the  Eminent  Commander  made  his 
fourth  consecutive  report,  and  at  this  time  ended  what  we  will  denominate 
the  second  epoch  in  the  history  of  the  Commandery. 

The  whole  of  the  original  indebtedness  incurred  for  fitting  up  the  apartments 
which  the  Commandery  occupied  had  been  paid ;  the  Charity  Fund  had  increased 
to  ^947.28 ;  forty  sets  of  Templar  equipments  had  been  purchased  for  the  use  of 
visitors;  a  rebate  for  five  years  of  ^500.00  per  annum  from  the  ^3,500  yearly  rent 
had  been  compassed  by  the  Commander;  and  there  was  as  a  remainder  ^2,830.18 
of  valid  cash  assets.  The  Commandery  had  increased  in  membership  also,  so 
that  it  numbered  689  active  members  and  31  honorary  members,  or  a  total  of 
720  of  all  kinds.  One  hundred  and  five  had  received  the  Orders  conferred 
during  the  year;  and  with  the  recommendation  by  the  Eminent  Commander 
that  the  annual  dues  be  increased  so  that  the  actual  expense  of  the  Command- 
ery could  be  met  without  any  accession  of  new  members,  the  Eminent  Com- 
mander called  upon  Right  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Henry  Ceilings  Ranney  to  pre- 
side, and  from  the  floor— exercising  the  prerogatives  of  a  Sir  Knight-nominated 
Sir  Amos  Grannis,  who  had  so  long  served  the  Commandery  as  Generalissimo, 
and  who  had  proven  to  be  so  valient  an  aid  to  the  present  Eminent  Commander 
for  the  distinguished  office  of  Commander.  He  was  elected  and  installed  to 
serve  for  the  year  1881  ;  and  thereby  came  to  an  end  the  first  admmistration  of 
Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  who  was  subsequently  re-elected  to  serve 
during  the  years  1882  and  1883. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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CHAPTER  IX. 

A.   D.    1881   TO  A.  D.    1882,  INCLUSIVE. 

Eminent  Sir  Knight  Amos  Grannis  assumed  the  duties  of  the  office  to  which  Em.  Sir 
he  had  been  elected  with  laudable  purposes. 

He  knew  that  the  labors  of  the  Commandery  during  the  past  year,  and  the  Relaxation 
anxieties  in  consequence  of  the  Triennial  Conclave,  had  strained  the  bow  to  its 
greatest  tension ;  and  that  a  period  of  both  monetary  and  fraternal  recuperation 
must  take  place  if  the  best  interests  of  the  Commandery  were  consulted. 

He  was  also  cognizant  that  his  principal  duties  consisted  in  maintaining  the 
Commandery  in  as  good  a  condition  financially  as  it  was  on  the  night  of  his 
installation  ;  and  besides,  to  promote  the  harmony  and  good  fellowship  between  Harmony, 
the  members  of  the  Commandery  as  well  as  Sister  Bodies. 

He  did  not  hope  that  many  would  seek  admission  during  the  year. 

He  found  that  six  hundred  and  forty-one  dollars  and  seven  cents  had  to  be 
paid,  for  settlement  of  accrued  but  not  due  rent,  and  sundry  petty  accounts  not 
presented  before  his  election,  and  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-two  dollars  and  ^^^^ 
twenty-five  cents  besides;  being  the  pro  rata  of  the  balance  due  as  between  the  P^"^- 
three  Chicago  Commanderies  in  consequence  of  the  Triennial  Conclave. 

The  prospect  to  accomplish  what  he  set  out  to,  as  far  as  the  financial  inter-  Financial 
ests  of  the  Commandery  were  concerned  was  less  problematical  than  it  other-  P'^^^P^^^^- 
wise  would  have  been,  by  reason  of  the  cash  assets  before  referred  to,  of  which 
Eminent  Sir  Grannis  was  enabled  to  collect  ^2,617.88  ;  the  major  portion  of  it, 
immediately. 

At  the  Special  Conclave  held  December  14th,  1880,  the  officers  elect  were  installation, 
installed;  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  acting  as  Grand  Commander  and 
Right  Eminent  Sir  Henry  C.  Ranney  as  Grand  Marshal. 

At  the  Special  Conclave  held  February  22d,  1 88 1,  the  Commandery  opened 
in  full  form,  when  Right  Eminent  Sir  John  Corson  Smith,  Grand  Commander  Grand 
of  Illinois  was  duly  announced  ;  a  Committee  consisting  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  gmklT^"^^'' 
Theodore  T.  Gurney  and  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette  were  appointed  to  received, 
wait  upon  him  in  the  ante- room  under  escort  of  appointed  Sir  Knights;  and 
invite  him  to  enter  the  Asylum,  where  he  was  subsequently  received  with  all 
the  honors  due  his  exalted  rank;  and  then  the  Testimonial  of  Beauseant  Com-  Beauseant 
mandery,  No.  8  Knights  Templar  of  Baltimore,  Maryland,  to  Apollo  Command-  and  her 
ery  was  brought  into  the  Asylum  by  Right  Eminent  Sir  Gurney  and  Sir  Henry  testimonial. 
Stanton  Tiffany,  and  on  behalf  of  that  Command  duly  presented  by  Eminent  Sir  ' 
Norman  T.  Cassette  (an  honorary  member  of  Beauseant  Commandery),  who  had 
been  requested  by  that  Command  to  do  so.    The  Testimonial  was  a  beautifully 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


engraved  and  framed  series  of  Resolutions  expressive  of  sentiments  appreciative 
of  the  Triennial  Conclave  and  the  courtesies  received  at  Chicago;  and  at  the 
hands  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery. 

The  remarks  of  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  and  the  reply  of  Very  Eminent  Sir 
Rev.  Dr.  Clinton  Locke,  follow  : 

Eminent  Commanded    and  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery: 


Fraught  with  a  high  and  much  prized  compliment. 

I  represent  this  hcur  within  this  hall. 

Proud  Beauseant  of  Baltimore  ;  Command 

Who's  effort  'tis  to  make  her  'Scutcheon  glow ; 

Yet,  honor  gives  to  knightly  worth  ;  and  hence 

Her  greeting  sends  to  you  to-night. 

While  I,  the  instrument  by  which  her  thought 

Expression  gains,  am  known  as  Templar  Knight 

Of  this  Command, — Apollo  Number  One 

Of  Illinois — Yet  I  am  honors  Knight 

Of  Beauseant.    Surcease  of  censure  I 

Implore  if  heart  and  mind  my  tongue  caress 

And  Praise,  so  richly  due  each  proud 

Command,  should  make  me  from  my  theme  digress, 

So  that  when  I  in  their  behalf  present 

To  you,  these  Resolutions  of  Regard, 

And  speak  of  your  well  earned  wide-spread  renown 

I  do  not  find  myself  from  high  esteem. 

Inclined  to  speak  of  Beauseant  as  well  ; 

And  that  my  words  may  best  subserve  the  caufee 

From  praising  one,  I  tell  of  both. 


Accord  we  all,  to  thee  Apollo  Number  One, 

Proud  fame  for  deeds  and  reputation  won  ; 

On  guard,  to  do  in  ev'ry  cause  a  noble  part, 

Love's  toil  for  thee,  to  heed  the  voice  within  the  heart. 

Lament  alone  is  thine  if  in  this  world  of  strife 

Omitted  be,  the  grand  amenities  of  life. 

Can  his' try  tell,  or  do  thy  treasured  archives  show 

On  whom  the  honor  rests,  to  on  thee  name  bestow  ? 

Mandate  pronounce  that  shall  disclose  his  fame  ; 

Make  known  the  method  of  his  choice  :  his  thought ;  his  name ! 

Apollo  !  fabled  God  of  Greeks  and  Romans  too, 

No  help  refused  to  those  who  would  liTe's  ills  undo. 

Divinest  patron  He,  of  all  the  healing  arts, 

Esculapius,  sire  who  vig'rous  health  imparts. 

Retold  his  fame  hath  been  for  decades  now  long  past, 

Yet  mem'ry  still  for  years  his  annals  will  recast. 

Not  while  the  Sun  rejuvenates  the  sick'ning  earth. 

Unfolding  bud  to  flow'r  and  fruit,  from  death-like  birth. 

Misunderstood  shall  be,  the  mind  of  classic  Greece. 

Behold  you  !  when  their  symbolized  thoughts  increase 

Enshrine  they  then  their  hopes,  and  call  Apollo  Sun  ; 

Regarding  Him  of  Gods,  as  the  Exalted  One. 

O  Patron  Grand  of  song  and  instruments  with  strings, 

Now  from  His  Lyre  transcendent  music  softly  springs, 

E'en  floats  upon  the  laden'd  air  in  Muse's  song, 


The 


piesentation 
speech. 


To  me  has  been  assigned  a  task  to-night, 


ACROSTIC. 


NO.   I,   KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  63 


Kythe  then,  as  Minister  of  Death  sad  dirge's  prolong. 

True  Knights  !  how  full  of  meaning  is  thy  Templar  name  ; 

Care  take,  for  first,  alone  is  worthy  of  your  fame  ! 

How  well  brave  Knights  have  you  your  banner  borne  ! 

Intrepid  foes  of  wrong,  have  fought  'gainst  sins  foresworn ; 

Call'd  to  your  aid,  the  solace,  which  kind  words  impart, 

And  sought  with  tender  works  to  soothe  the  wounded  heart ! 

God  grant  that  honor  yours  Apollo  Number  One — 

Of  praise  the  best,  what  thou  should'st  do,  so,  have  you  done 
*  *  *  * 

Twice  three  short  months  ago  'twas  hardly  known 

To  all  the  Templar  Knights  who  face  me  in 

This  hall,  that  Beauseant  of  Baltimore 

Was  peer,  with  all  who  work  with  purpose  high 

To  emulate  by  worth  and  heart  born  zeal 

Chivalric  models  grac'd  by  earths  renown , 

Yet,  search  the  annals  of  sWift  fleeting  time 
And  you'll  discover  on  the  written  page, 
That  man  doth  strive  with  will,  and  matchless  thought 
To  gain  the  goal,  where  those  pre-eminent, 
Stand  firm  like  seers,  and  though  the  spirit  of 
The  future  wave  his  beck'ning  wand  to  them 
They  see  their  younger  rivals  pass  them  in 
The  race,  as  they  in  other  days  outstripped 
Those  struggling  with  them  for  the  place  they  hold. 
Now  Beauseant,  ambitious — stands  among 
The  foremost  in  the  land  ;  and  who  can  tell 
What  will  her  future  be. 

ACROSTIC, 
Brave  Beauseant  of  Baltimore,  of  new  renown 
E'en  now ,  for  you  we  weave  the  sacred  bay-leaf  crown  !  ' 
Above,  within  the  Templar  sky  you  shine  a  star 
Undimmed  in  lustre  though  from  us  you  blaze  afar. 
Shall  envy  ever  mar  thy  aspirations  fair. 
E'er  dwarf  thy  purpose  with  the  palsy  of  despair. 
Antagonize  thy  friends,  and  fill  thy  foes  with  glee. 
No  I  no  !  we  pray,  be  such  a  fate  unknown  to  thee. 
The  pious  Devotee's  in  India's  ancient  climes 
Conceive  that  bells  upon  the  trees  are  hung,  whose  chimes 
Outsing  the  rarest  notes  that  tremble  in  the  air  ; 
Musical  they  'tis  said  as  song  by  angel  choir. 
Make  they  as  well,  their  offerings  on  the  Lakes  low  shore; 
And  feeling  sin  their  vows  fulfill,  and  God  implore. 
Now  lamps  they  light,  and  launch  upon  the  lakes  calm  breast 
Departing  omens  of  their  hearts  fond  pray'r  expressed. 
E'er  watch  they  :  If  the  light  still  burns  while  in  their  sight 
Retreating  yojans  far  into  the  shades  of  night  ; 
Yea  !  answers  back  the  omen  from  the  glim'ring  deep  ; 
Kind  Angels  kiss  their  eyelids,  and  in  peace  they  sleep. 
The  tree  that  thou  hast  planted  in  Chicago's  soil,  * 
On  shore's  from  which  the  lakes  resisting  waves  recoil 
For  years,  will  seem  to  bear  the  leaves  that  on  it  swing 

*  Beauseant  Conimandery  caused  an  elm  tree  to  be  planted  on  the  site  of  their  Headquarters 
Tent,  at  Lake  Front  Park,  Chicago. 


Speech 
continued. 


64  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Reply  ot 


Very  Em  Sir 


Rev.  Dr. 


Clinton 


Locke. 


Ascension- 
Day 

Committee. 


Ascension- 
Day 
services. 


Sir  Knight 
James  A. 
Garfield. 


Dispatch. 


Bell  like  in  form,  and  they  by  winds  be  made  to  ring. 
Ah  hear  our  call,  from  State  so  far  removed  from  thine  ! 
Look  up  rejoiced  !  your  friendship  lights  still  brightly  shine  ; 
The  Augur  answers  back  across  life's  troubled  sea, 
In  grateful  love,  our  friendship  give  we  unto  thee! 
May  thy  kind  Resolutions,  rouse  to  Knightly  deeds  ; 
Our  Templar  zeal  provoke  to  soar  above  our  creeds  ; 
Regard  we  ever  Knightly  friendships  well  begun 
Eternal  as  are  World's  revolving  'round  the  Sun. 

REPLY. 

Eminent  Commander  and  Sir  Knights  : 

The  pleasant  duty  of  replying  to  the  distinguished  Sir  Knight  who  has  just  presented  the  Reso- 
lutions from  Beauseant  Commandery  was  assigned  to  the  Mayor  of  our  city,  who  is  a  well-known 
member  of  our  Order :  he  has  failed  to  appear ;  and  suddenly,  without  a  moments  preparation  I 
am  commanded  by  my  Commander  to  take  his  place.  Cheerfully  I  obey,  for  certainly  I  would 
be  a  discourteous  Knight  indeed  if  I  was  not  at  all  times  ready  to  speak  a  word  for  that  brilliant 
Commandery  of  which  I  have  the  honor  to  be  an  honorary  member  ;  Beauseant  of  Baltimore. 

Among  the  thousands  of  waving  plumes  and  flashing  swords  and  gallant  men  which  made  up 
the  pageant  sweeping  in  splendor  through  our  streets  last  August,  none  played  a  more  conspicuous 
part  than  this  body  of  Knights,  hailing  from  the  City  of  Monuments  and  Fair  women.  Who  can 
for-et  the  festal  board  to  which  they  summoned  the  Chief  Officers  of  the  Order  ;  who  can  forget 
the'lavish  hospitality  of  their  tent  by  the  sounding  inland  sea.  Who  does  not  proudly  remember 
their  courtesy,  their  friendship,  their  bright  exemplification  of  the  best  Templar  characteristics  ? 

The  beautiful  testimonial  they  have  sent  us,  chimes  in  well  with  all  that  they  had  done  before. 
Tell  them  Sir  Knight,  how  highly  we  piize  it.  Tell  them  how  deeply  we  feel  the  grateful  tribute; 
and  tell  them  also,  that  if  ever  another  conflagration  should  blot  out-as  one  so  cruelly  did  blot  out 
the  Asylum  of  Apollo,  the  first  thing  we  would  struggle  to  move,  next  to  our  own  Charter,  would 
be  these  dearly  prized  Resolutions  which  shall  ever  occupy  an  honorable  place  on  our  walls. 

At  the  886th  Stated  Conclave  held  April  5th,  1881,  the  Eminent  Commander 
appointed  Sir  John  Henry  Stephens  Quick,  John  C.  Cushman  and  David  Ray 
Crego  a  Committee  on  Ascension  Day  service,  and  notified  the  Commandery 
that  Montjoie  Commandery  No.  53,  K.  T.  had  tendered  an  Escort  for  that  day 
which  had  been  accepted. 

The  five  Sir  Knights  representing  the  Commandery  on  the  Triennial  Com- 
mittee on  this  night  also,  made  their  final  report  and  were  discharged. 

May26th,  i88i,at3:30  o'clockP.M.,  the  Officers  and  Ninety  Sir  Knights  of 
the  Commandery  attended  Ascension  Day  Services  at  Grace  Episcopal  Church. 
They  were  escorted  by  Montjoie  Commandery,  mounted,  to  and  from  their 
Asylum.  Rev.  Dr.  Harris  preached  the  sermon  to  the  Sir  Knights  and  a  very 
large  congregation  of  invited  guests. 

At  the  892d  Stated  Conclave,  held  July  5th,  1881,  a  dispatch  was  ordered 
sent  expressive  of  the  profound  sorrow  and  sympathy  of  the  Commandery  in 
consequence  of  the  shooting  of  the  late  President  Sir  Knight  James  A.  Garfield, 

to-wit :  .  ,      ,  00 

Chicago,  July  5th,  1881. 

Mrs.  James  A.  Garfield, 

Washington,  D.  C.  :  , 
The  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  1,  Knights  Templar,  desire  to  convey  to  you  and 
yours  and  through  you  to  your  distinguished  husband  Sir  Knight  James  A.  Garfield,  sentiments 
of  great  sorrow,  profound  sympathy,  and  earnest  hopes  which  are  uppermost  and  deepest  in  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  the  seven  hundred  Sir  Knights  of  this  Commandery. 

By  Order  of  the  Commandery.  ^^^^  Grannis,  Commander. 

Henry  S.  Tiffany,  Recorder. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


65 


Sir  Knight  and  President  Garfield  having  died  in  consequence  of  his  shoot-  Death  of 
ing  by  the  assassin  Giteau,  Apollo  Commandery  at  its  897th  Stated  Conclave,  GTrfidd'etc, 
held  September  20th,  1881,  determined  to  ascertain  from  Oriental  Commandery 
No.  12,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  if  it  would  be  proper  for  them  to  participate  in  the 
funeral  obsequies  of  the  late  President;  and  it  was  resolved  that  a  committee  of 
five  should  be  appointed  to  draft  suitable  resolutions  of  condolence  to  his  mem- 
ory, and  that  an  engrossed  copy  of  the  same  should  be  forwarded  to  Mrs.  James 
A.  Garfield,  Mrs.  Eliza  Garfield  (his  mother),  and  Columbia  Commandery  No.  2 
Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Washington,  D.  C,  of  which  the  late  President 
was  a  member,  under  seal  of  the  Commandery;  and  at  a  Special  Conclave  held 
September  23d,  1881,  the  Committee  on  Resolutions,  consisting  of  Eminent  Sir  Committee 
John  S.  Collister,  Right  Eminent  Sir  Theodore  T.  Gurney,  and  Sir  Knights  John  Resolutions. 
C.  Cushman  and  DeWitt  C.  Cregier,  made  a  report  which  was  unanimously 
adopted. 

Engrossed  copies  were  sent  as  before  ordered,  and  subsequently  Mrs.  Gar-  Resolutions 
field  acknowledged  their  receipt  in  the  most  appropriate  and  feeling  terms. 

A  communication  was  received  at  the  last  Conclave  named  from  Oriental 
Commandery  of  Cleveland  earnestly  inviting  the  Commandery  to  be  present  Funeral  of 
Monday,  September  26th,  to  participate  in  the  funeral  ceremonies.    There-  0^61^'' 
upon  Right  Eminent  Sir  Gurney  moved  that  the  Sir  Knights  desiring  to 
go  to  Cleveland       *       *      *       from  the  Commandery,  have  full  power  Apollo  goes 
to  represent  it  on  that  occasion;  and   Sunday,  September  25th,  at  2:30  '° Cleveland, 
o'clock  p.  M.,  the  Sir  Knights  representing  Apollo  Commandery  proceeded  to 
the  Pittsburg  and  Ft.  Wayne  Depot  to  embark  for  Cleveland,  escorted  by  a 
large  number  of  their  Fraters  who  could  not  go. 

The  following  is  the  Roster  of  the  Commandery  at  Cleveland,  to 

-wit .  Roster. 

Sir  David  Ray  Crego  as  Eminent  Commander. 
Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany  as  Generalissimo. 
'  And  Sir  Knights  "/  "- — . 

Albert  W.Adcock.  O.P.Baker.  W.  A.  Burgess.  F.  M.  Bradshaw. 

S-S.  Chapman.  James  Hitchcock.    "     H.  H.  Hobbs.  Willard  H.  James. 

Stephen  Laskey.  Joseph  M.  Lyon.         M.  M.  Miller.  Marcus  M.  Merrick. 

Henry  E,  Metzger.  Joseph  C.  Neeley.       John  E.  Norton.  A.  F.  Pierce. 

H.  M.  Russell,  and  several  other  Sir  Knights. 

The  Commandery  at  Cleveland  was  assigned  on  the  day  of  the  funeral  to 
the  left  of  Detroit  Commandery  No.  I  Knights  Templar,  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  Cleveland, 
and  sorrowfully  assisted  in  performing  the  sad  duties  imposed  upon  all  who  at- 
tended. 

September  26th  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Com- 
mandery,  under  command  of  Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis,  participated  in  the 
Memorial  Procession  at  Chicago,  consequent  to  the  death  of  President  Gar-  ^™on  at 
field,  and  hence  the  Commandery  was  represented  in  two  cities  upon  that  sor-  Chicago, etc. 
rowful  day. 

The  Commandery,  after  the  procession  had  been  dismissed,  also  attended 
memorial  services  at  the  First  Methodist  Church  at  Chicago. 

At  the  899th  Stated  Conclave,  held  October  i8th,  1 881,  resolutions  of  thanks  Resolutions 
were  adopted,  acknowledging  courtesies  received  at  the  hands  of  Oriental  Com-  etV^^"'''' 


66 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


To  amend 
By-Laws. 


Em.  Sir 
J.  D.  M. 
Carr,  and 
St.  Bernard, 
No.  35. 


Charters 
issued. 


A  visit  to 
St.  Bernard, 
No.  35. 


Drill  Corps 
Reception. 


Annual. 


Commander' 
Report. 


mandery  of  Cleveland,  while  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  were  in  that  city ; 
and  to  Mr.  William  H.  Brown  and  family,  and  H.  Oviatt,  and  Doctor  F.  W. 
Von  Ullrich  for  gratuitous  and  kindly  services  rendered  when  Sir  Knight  Sid- 
ney S.  Chapman  was  prostrated  by  the  heat. 

The  following  amendment  to  the  By-laws  was  offered  also  by  Sir  James  H.  Ray- 
mond, to-wit :  To  amend  Section  5  of  Article  4  ;  the  object  being  to  increase 
the  annual  dues  to  twelve  dollars,  to  be  paid  semi-annually ;  and  at  the  900th 
Stated  Conclave,  held  Nov.  ist,  1881,  the  dues  were  increased  to  ten  dollars 
per  annum,  payable  semi-annually. 

At  a  Special  Conclave  held  November  8th,  1881,  after  the  Commandery  had 
been  declared  duly  opened,  Eminent  Sir  John  D.  M.  Carr,  Commander,  and 
St.  Bernard  Commandery  No.  35  K.  T.  were  announced,  and  introduced  by 
Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  and  welcomed  by  Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis; 
whereupon  the  Officers  of  Apollo  Commandery  vacated  their  several  stations, 
and  on  request  of  Eminent  Sir  Grannis  the  stations  were  occupied  by  the 
Officers  of  St.  Bernard  Commandery  who  conferred  the  Order  of  the  Temple 
in  superb  style. 

At  the  901st  Stated  Conclave,  held-November  15th  of  the  same  year,  a  noti- 
fication was  received  from  both  Chevalier  Bayard  and  Montjoie  Commander- 
ies,  to  the  effect  that  the  Grand  Commandery  had  duly  issued  charters  to  them; 
respectively  as  Chevalier  Bayard  No.  52  and  Montjoie  No.  53,  accompanying 
the  communication  with  a  list  of  the  Charter  Members  of  each  Commandery, 
who  from  this  fact  ceased  to  be  members  of  Apollo  Commandery. 

The  loss  of  members  to  Apollo  Commandery  was  eighteen  by  the  first,  and 
thirty-one  by  the  second. 

A  Dispensation  was  received  from  the  Grand  Commander  at  this  same  Con- 
clave, authorizing  the  Commandery  to  go  to  the  Asylum  of  St.  Bernard  Com- 
mandery, wearing  the  equipments  of  Templars,  on  the  evening  of  November 
i6th,  1881,  and  also  to  appear  in  like  costume  on  the  streets,  and  at  the  Recep- 
tion given  by  the  Drill  Corps  of  the  Commandery  on  the  evening  of  November 
24th.  On  the  night  first  designated  Apollo  Commandery  visited  St.  Bernard  Com- 
mandery Asylum  and  was  accorded  similar  courtesies  to  those  extended  to  St. 
Bernard  Commandery  on  the  occasion  of  her  visit  to  Apollo  Commandery,  and 
on  the  second  night  designated  the  Commandery  attended  the  Reception  of  the 
Drill  Corps  at  the  Palmer  House,  which  in  everyway,  proved  to  be  a  great 
success. 

At  the  902d  Stated,  and  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Commandery,  there  were 
present  the  Officers  and  two  hundred  Knights. 

The  Eminent  Commander  reported  that  he  had  endeavored  to  conduct  the 
affairs  of  the  Commandery,  socially  and  financially,  as  best  he  could,  and  to 
leave  them  in  as  good  a  condition  as  he  found  them;  that  the  Tnenmal  Ac- 
count had  been  fully  paid ;  that  the  Life  Membership  Fund  stood  the  same  as 
at  the  commencement  of  his  term  ;  that  the  Charity  Fund  amounted  to  twelve 
hundred  and  two  dollars  and  fifty-one  cents ;  that  he  congratulated  both  Officers 
and  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  upon  the  harmony  which  had  attended  her  Coun- 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


67 


cils;  and  in  conclusion,  that  his  thanks  were  due  and  gratefully  given  to 
officers  and  Sir  Knights,  for  their  faithfulness  as  to  the  details  of  his  administra- 
tion, the  success  of  which  was  due  largely  to  their  co-operation. 

There  had  been  fifty  Conclaves  held  during  the  year,  with  an  average  attend-  p.. 
ance  of  thirty-six,  and  the  Orders  were  conferred  upon  seventeen.  Condaves. 

Pending  the  count  of  the  ballot  for  Eminent  Commander,  Sir  James  Bollen 
Bradwell,  on  behalf  of  many  members  of  the  Commandery,  presented  to  Emi- 
nent Sir  Grannis  an  elegant  Past  Commanders  Jewell,  and  a  Service  of  Silver  Silvel^'''^ 
for  Mrs.  Grannis.  presented. 

Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis  possesses  very  many  commendable  and  lovable  g. 
qualifications.    He  has  merited  whatever  of  Masonic  preferment  he  has  re-  Amos 
ceived.    As  Worshipful  Master  of  Home  Lodge  No.  508,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  he 
was  as  successful  as  any  one  could  desire  to  be.    The  Lodge  grew  in  member- 
ship,  money  accumulations,  and  fraternal  harmony. 

So  much  has  Eminent  Sir  Grannis  been  esteemed  by  that  Body,  that  he  has 
been  continued  from  year  to  year,  for  many  years,  as  Treasurer  and  one  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

As  Generalissimo  of  Apollo  Commandery  during  the  years  1877,  1879  and  As  General- 
1880,  his  acts  redound  to  his  credit,  and  have  made  him  friends  who  have  never 
failed  him. 

In  1880,  the  then  Eminent  Commander,  having  other  duties  to  perform, 
gave  over  the  command  to  him  by  General  Order,  and  he  was  in  per- 
sonal command  of  the  Commandery  until  Thursday  morning  during  the  Con- 
clave, and  on  the  day  of  parade,  and  worthily  performed  whatever  duties  were 
assigned  him. 

As  a  citizen  he  is  above  reproach,  and  has  been  honored  by  his  fellow  towns-      aCiti  en 
men,  he  having  been  elected  to  represent  them  in  the  Common  Council  of  the    '  ^  ' 
City  of  Chicago,  where  his  services  were  well  and  honestly  rendered. 

Conscientious,  conservative  and  upright ;  it  can  be  truthfully  averred  that 
none  know  him  as  a  man  but  to  praise  him. 

The  duties  he  had  to  perform  as  Eminent  Commander  were  consequential.  As 
A  period  so  complex  as  that  preceding,  during  and  subsequent  to  such  a  Tri-  Commander, 
ennial  Conclave  as  was  held  in  Chicago,  with  the  burdens  to  be  borne,  money  to 
be  given  and  paid,  coupled  with  the  natural  disappointments  incident  to  com- 
mittee allotments  and  imaginary  and  actual  errors  of  every  kind— engendering 
friction  between  members  if  ever  it  could  be  provoked-and  the  consequent  re- 
action  from  active  effort  which  successively  follows,  rendered  it  necessary  that 
a  Sir  Knight  of  even  poise,  good  heart  and  fine  characteristics  should  be  had 
to  promote  a  formative  revival  of  the  better  phases  of  Templary.    Eminent  Sir 
Knight  Amos  Grannis  was  enabled  to  perform  duties  in  this  behalf,  and  m-erits 
the  award  given  him  by  approving  and  conscientious  Knights  Templar 

While  a  year  so  closely  following  a  Triennial  Conclave  could  not  be  expected 
to  be  one  of  general  activities  and  stirring  events,  it  certainly  has  evolved  the 
fact  that  Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis  is  beyond  question  one  of  the  best  loved 
members  of  the  Commandery. 


68  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Em.  Sir  Cas- 
sette's sec- 
ond adminis- 
tration. 


Installation. 


Address. 


Thanks  of 
Em.  Sir 
Grannis. 


Mosher 
Reception. 


Eminent  Sir  Norman  Theodore  Cassette  was  re-elected  to  succeed  Eminent 
Sir  Amos  Grannis  ;  and  immediately  commenced  his  second  administration, 
which  continued  during  the  years  1882  and  1883,  he  being  re  elected  at  the 
close  of  the  former  year. 

The  officers  were  duly  installed  at  a  special  Conclave  held  December  13th 
1881,  by  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  Loyal  L.  Munn,  and  the  following 
Grand  Officers  :  Very  Eminent  Sir  Henry  Turner,  Deputy  Grand  Commander, 
Right  Eminent  Sirjohn  Corson  Smith  as  Grand  Captain  General,  Right  Em- 
inent Sir  Theodore  T.  Gurney  as  Grand  Prelate,  Eminent  Sir  John  H.  Witbeck 
as  Grand  Senior  Warden,  Eminent  Sir  Warren  Grafton  Purdy  as  Grand  Junior 
Warden,  Eminent  Sir  Gilbert  W.  Barnard,  Grand  Recorder,  Eminent  Sir  John 
B.  Overmeyer  as  Grand  Warder,  Eminent  Sir  John  Porter  Ferns  Grand  Captain 
of  the  Guard. 

Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis  was  appointed  and  served  as  Grand  Marshal. 
After  the  conclusion  of  the  Installation  ceremonies  Right  Eminent  Sir  Loyal  L. 
Munn  delivered  an  interesting  address,  and  then  Eminent  Commander  Gas- 
sette  read  a  communication  which  was  ordered  to  be  transmitted  to  each  Sir 
Knight  of  the  Commandery,  hence,  only  the  subjoined  extracts  are  made  there- 
from  : 

"  Officers  and  Sir  Knights  :  ,        ,  r  ^ 

The  Eminent  Commander  thanks  you  for  the  unsolicited  honor  ^vhich  you  have  conferred  upon 
him  by  electing  him  for  the  fifth  time  to  the  exalted  station  which  he  now  occupies. 

It  is  one  of  the  law  bulwarks  for  the  government  of  our  Order,  that  all  ir2,e  and  magnammous 
Knights  T.emplar  shall  cheerfully  obey  the  will  of  the  majority,  and  the  result  of  an  election  being 
ascertained,  that  the  vnnority  become  a  part  of  the  majo7±y  in  unity.  _ 

Harmony  and  fraternity  must  ever  prevail  in  a  Commanderj^  like  Apollo  No.  i,  because  the  in- 
telli-ence  of  its  membership  fully  comprehends  the  meaning  of  such  tenets  of  the  Order,  as  will 
make  potent  words  spoken  on  the  threshold  of  Knighthood,  in  which  it  is  affirmed  that  no  feehngs 
of  enmity  or  ill  will  are  harbored,  which  would  not  be  truly  reconciled  should  a  corresponding 
disposition  be  found.  Hence,  if  any  such  feelings  should  have  prevailed  in  the  past,  or  are  enter- 
tained at  present,  a  disposition  to  reconcile  them  exists  on  the  part  of  the  Eminent  Commander, 
and  he  reliantlv  calls  upon  the  Knights  of  this  Ccm.mandery  to  remember  the  words  they  have 
spoken  avowing  a  willingness  to  reconcile  differences  between  each  other  under  such  circum- 
stances." 

At  the  903d  Stated  Conclave  held  December  20th,  1881,  Eminent  Sir  Amos 
Grannis  in  his  own  behalf,  and  for  Mrs.  Grannis,  thanked  the  Commandery  for 
the  bestowal  of  a  Past  Commanders  Jewell  to  himself,  and  a  silver  service  to 
Mrs.  Grannis. 

He  also  announced  a  reception  to  be  given  by  the  photographer  C.  D. 
Mosher,  on  which  occasion  there  would  be  presented  to  the  Commandery 
Memorial  Albums  containing  the  photographs  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  the  Com- 
mandery.  Eminent  Commander  Cassette  ordered  the  Captain  General  to  detail 
a  proper  escort  to  Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis  who  had  been  chosen  to  preside 
at  the  reception,  and  appointed  Sirs  David  R.  Crego,  James  H.  Raymond, 
Tames  Hitchcock,  Daniel  M.  Boynton  and  John  E.  Norton,  a  committee  to  con- 
fer with  Mr.  Mosher,  and  assist  him  in  making  the  necessary  arrangements  for 
the  reception. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


69 


At  the  same  Conclave  it  was  also  determined  a  to  give  a  sociable  to  the  Sir 
Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  and  their  families,  in  the  apartments  of  the 
Commandery,^  February  14th,  1882,  and  Sirs  James  Hitchcock,  Daniel  M. 
Kimbark,  Albert  C.  Lamb,  John  E.  Norton  and  Daniel  M.  Boynton,  were 
appointed  a  committea^to  arrange  the  details  with  power  to  act.  The  sociable 
was  given  at  the  designated  time  and  was  a  grand  affair.  Fully  six  hundred 
people  were  present. 

At  the  905th  Stated  Conclave  held  January  17th,  1882,  a  communication  was  re-  Resolutions 
ceived  from  Columbia  Commandery  No.  2,  Knights  Templar,  of  Washington,  D. 
C,  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  a  dispatch  from  Apollo  Commandery  before 
mentioned,  and  accompanying  it  was  a  copy  of  the  Resolutions  adopted  by  that  Columbia 
Commandery  relative  to  the  death  of  the  late  President  and  Sir  Knight,  James  A. 
Garfield,  beautifully  printed  on  silk.    The  Resolutions  were  suitably  framed  Commandery 
and  now  hang  upon  the  parlor  walls  of  Apollo  Commandery.     The  communi- 
cation which  the  Resolutions  accompanied  was  as  follows; 

relative 

Columbia  Commandery  No.  2,  Knights  Templar. 

„  ^  Washington,  D.  C,  December  30th,  1881. 

Eminent  Sir  :  ^         >  j  > 

I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  y  our  kind  and  courteous  communication  of  Sep.    °  ^ 
tember  last,  conveying  the  expression  of  sympathy  and  condolence  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i 
with  this  Commandery  upon  the  untimely  death  of  cur  lamented  Frater,  Sir  James  A.  Garfield,  ^f  Sir  Kt 
President  of  the  United  States.    Be  pleased  to  assure  the  officers  and  members  of  your  Command- 
ery  of  our  grateful  appreciation  of  their  thoughtful  sympathy,  so  feelingly  and  courteously  ex- 
pressed;  which  will  be  spread  upon  our  records  and  carefully  preserved  in  our  archives.    I  inclose  and  Pres 
a  copy  of  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Commandery  upon  the  death  of  Sir  Knight  Garfield,  with 
the  request  that  you  will  lay  it  before  your  Commandery,  and  with  the  hope-  that  this  sad  event 
may  more  closely  unite  us  in  the  bonds  of  Christian  Knighthood.  Garfield 
r^^AL.]  I  have  the  honor  to  be  Sir, 

"^"^^•^  •  Very  courteously  yours, 

WILLIAM  HENRY  BROWN 
ABNER  T.  LONGLEY,  Recorder.  Eminent  Commander. 

In  accordance  with  due  and  legal  notice  the  By-laws  were  also  amended  at  By-laws 
this  Conclave,  so  as  to  determine  the  hour  for  holding  Conclaves  from  Novem-  ^"^^"^ed. 
ber  ist  to  April  ist  to  be  7:30  o'clock,  and  for  other  months  of  the  year  8 
o'clock. 

Tuesday  evening,  February  21st,  the  907th  Stated  Conclave,  having  con-  j^^^^^^^^ 
vened  and  been  duly  opened,  the  Eminent  Commander  appointed  Eminent  Sir 
Amos  Grannis  and  Sir  James  H.  Raymond  a  committee  to  introduce  Sir  Henry 
Stanton  Tiffany  as  the  representative  of  Damascus  Commandery  No.  I,  Knights  °^ 
Templar  of  St.  Paul,  who,  on  behalf  of  that  Commandery,  in  a  few  appropriate 
and  felicitous  remarks,  presented  Apollo  Commandery  with  a  framed  photo- 
graph of  Damascus  Commandery  at  its  Summer  Encampment  at  White  Bear 
Lake,  with  the  following  communication  : 

Headquarters  Damascus  Commandery  No.  i.  Knights  Templar, 

St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  December  20th,  1881. 
Eminent  Commander  Aj>ollo  Commandery  No  i,  Knights  Tem^tar,  Chicago,  Illinois. 
Eminent  Commander  : 

In  accordance  with  a  resolution  of  this  Commandery,  we  have  this  day  forwarded  to  you  by  ex- 
press  a  photographic  copy  of  a  painting  recently  executed  by  Zimmermann  of  this  city,  repre- 
senting the  Drill  Corps  and  other  members  of  this  Commandery  in  their  summer  camp  on  the 


shores  of  White  Bear  Lake.  transmitting  this  slight  token  of 


remem- 


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Musical  and 
literary  pro- 
gramme. 


Council  of 
the  Red 
Cross. 


Ascension 
day  services, 


Impaired 
health  of  the 
Commander. 


Sir  General 
issimo 
Tiffany  in 
command. 


The  E.  Com 
mander  re- 
turns. 


brance,  we  beg  to  extend  through  you  to  the  Sir  Knights  of  your  command  an  expression  of  the 
fraternal  regard  entertained  for  them  by  the  members  of  Damascus  No.  i,  and  of  their  apprecia- 
tion  of  the  Knightly  courtesies  from  the  members  of  Apollo  No.  i,  of  which  they  have  been  the 
recipients.  We  have  Eminent  Sir  the  honor  to  be 

Very  truly  and  courteously  yours, 
JOHN  C.  TERRY,  Eminent  Qommander,  |  ^^^^^^^^^-^^^^^ 
O.  G.  MILKER,  Generalissimo,  J 

At  the  Special  Conclave,  held  March  14th,  a  musical  and  literary  programme 
was  rendered  for  the  instruction  and  pleasure  of  the  Sir  Knights.  One  hundred 
and  fifty  Sir  Knights  were  in  attendance.  Sir  Knight  Reverend  Doctor  George 
Claud  Lorimer  spoke,  taking  the  Symbolism  of  the  Cross  for  his  theme.  Sir 
James  H.  Raymond  delivered  an  address  upon  the  Force  of  Moral  Character, 
and  Sir  DeWitt  C.  Cregier  recited  a  poem  entitled  the  "Water  Wheel,"  in  a 
very  impressive  manner. 

At  a  Special  Conclave,  held  March  28th,  the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  was 
conferred  upon  twenty  companions,  four  hundred  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Com- 
mandery  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  visiting  Sir  Knights,  being  present. 

In  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the  Commandery,  at  the  908th  Stated 
■  Conclave,  held  March  7th,  1882,  a  committee  was  duly  appointed,  consisting^ 
of  Sirs  Henry  Si,IiiGany,  James  B.  Bradwell,  John  C.  Cushman,  James  G. 
'  Miller,  Daniel  M^  Boynton,  Collins  S.  Squiers,  John  E,  Norton,  James  Hitch- 
cock, and  William  H.  Bradley,  to  arrange  the  programme  for  Ascension-Day 
services  to  be  held  in  the  Immanuel  Baptist  Church— Michigan  avenue  and 
Twenty-third  street— and  on  that  day,  at  3:30  o'clock  p.  M.,  one  hundred  and 
twenty  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo,  accompanied  by  their  guests,  the  Grand  Com- 
mandery, Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery,  and  Montjoie  Commandery,  as  es- 
cort to  the  Grand  Commandery,  proceeded  to  the  church,  where,  in  the  presence 
of  nearly  three  thousand  people.  Sir  Knight  Reverend  Doctor  G.  C.  Lorimer 
delivered  a  masterly  address. 

At  the  915th  Stated  Conclave,  held  June  20th,  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  stated 
that  his  health  was  so  impaired  in  consequence  of  lal  ors  incident  to  the  Trien- 
nial Conclave,  that  he  was  compelled  to  leave  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  hence 
turned  over  the  command  of  Apollo  Commandery  to  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tif- 
fany, Generalissimo,  who,  for  nearly  three  months,  performed  the  duties  of 
Eminent  Commander. 

June  25th,  under  his  command,  the  Commandery  buried  Sir  William  Smith, 
and  attended  the  funeral  of  Sir  Amos  T.  Hall,  sending  an  escort  to  Detroit, 
Michigan,  with  the  remains. 

During  the  absence  of  the  Eminent  Commander  he  presided  at  two  Emergent, 
three  Special  and  three  Stated  Conclaves,  and  conferred  the  Order  of  the  Tem- 
ple upon  eight  Illustrious  Knights  of  the  Red  Cross. 

The  Eminent  Commander  resumed  his  station  at  the  920th  Stated  Conclave, 
held  September  5th,  1882,  at  which  Conclave  the  Commandery  were  informed 
that  St.  Bernard  Commandery  had  won  the  Drill  Banner  at  Indianapolis,  and  a 
committee,  consisting  of  Sirs  Henry  S.  Tiff-any  and  James  Hitchcock,  were 
appointed  to  telegraph  the  congratulations  of  Apollo  Commandery. 


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A  Special  Conclave  was  held  September  26th,  1882,  at  4:30  o'clock  p.  M.,  A  large 
when  a  council  of  Knights  of  the  Red  Cross  was  opened,  and  an  entertainment 
inaugurated  simultaneously  in  the  Blue  Lodge  Hall  by  the  Commandery,  in  1^^^^  Cross 
honor  of  three  hundred  and  fifty-two  ladies  in  attendance — the  wives,  daugh- 
ters, sisters,  and  friends  of  Sir  Knights  and  candidates.    Four  hundred  mem- 
bers   of  the  Commandery,  besides  distinguished  visitors,  were  present,  and  ^. 
the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  was  conferred  upon  thirty-four  companions.  The 
character  of  this  Red  Cross  Council,  Musical  Entertainment  and  Banquet  can  entertained 
best  be  understood  by  the  subjoined  report : 

"The  Asylum  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i,  on  Monroe  street,  was  the  scene,  on  Tuesday  Report  of  it. 
evening,  of  a  social  gathering  such  as  will  long  be  cherished  in  the  memory  of  all  whose  privilege 
it  was  to  be  there.  The  occasion  was  a  council  of  Red  Cross  Knights,  which  closed  at  8  o'clock 
after  conferring  the  Order  on  thirty-four  companions.  The  subsequent  programme  included  a 
grand  banquet,  which  proved  to  be  not  merely  a  rich  repast  but  a  rare  literary  feast,  and  concluded 
with  a  bail.  This  was  the  largest  assembly  that  has  ever  been  given— with  the  ladies  participating 
— in  the  apartments  belonging  to  a  Commandery  ;  and  the  promptness  with  which  the  programme 
was  carried  through — the  time  marked  out  being  kept  with  the  precision  of  clock-work — reflects 
the  utmost  credit  upon  the  committees  selected  to  carry  out  its  details.  They  displayed  through- 
out the  entire  ordering  of  the  affair  executive  ability  of  a  rare  order,  and  more  than  merited  the 
grateful  encomiums  of  all  the  participants. 

There  were  seated  in  the  grand  banquet  hall  350  couples,  and  altogether  there  were  nearly  800 
Sir  Knights  and  ladies  present  on  the  occasion.  Invitations  had  not  been  extended  outside  of  the 
Commandery,  with  a  few  rare  exceptions,  and  among  these  were  present :  Past  Right  Eminent 
Grand  Commander  Thayer,  of  Indiana  ;  Reverend  Doctor  White,  Prelate  of  Memphis  Command- 
ery; Eminent  Sir  Gilbert  W.  Barnard,  Grand  Recorder  of  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois,  who 
represented  the  Grand  Commandery ;  Eminent  Sir  Henry  Bennett,  of  Apollo  Commandery  No. 
26,  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa  ;  Eminent  Sir  W.  Carey,  of  Richard  Coeur  De  Lion  Commandery,  Lon- 
don, Ont.  ;  Sir  James  M.  Glass,  of  Richard  Coeur  De  Lion  Commandery,  London,  Ont. ;  Emi- 
nent Sir  Warren  G.  Purdy,  Commander  of  Montjoie  Commandery,  Chicago  ;  Sir  John  M.  Bon- 
nell,  of  Montjoie  Commandery ;  Eminent  Sir  Jarvis  White,  Cyrene  Commandery,  Davenport, 
Iowa;  Eminent  Sir  John  C.  Neely,  Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery;  Sir  A.  H,  Harbaugh, 
Damascus  Commandery,  St.  Paul ;  Eminent  Sir  H.  H.  Pond,  Chicago  Commandery ;  Sir  H.  G. 
Purinton,  Captain  General  of  St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  35,  Chicago. 

The  Council  was  organized,  the  thirty-four  Companions  knighted,  and  the  Council  closed  at  8 
o'clock,  preparatory  to  the  banquet.  During  the  time  the  Orders  were  being  conferred,  a  concert 
was  being  given  for  the  entertainment  of  the  ladies  in  the  Blue  Lodge  Hall  of  the  Commandery, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  committee  of  Knights  Templar.  Braun's  trombone  solo,  "  Within  This 
Sacred  Dwelling,"  from  Mozart,  was  very  finely  rendered,  and  Mrs.  Falk,  Mrs.  Watrous  and  Mr. 
McWade  gave  some  selections  which  they  sang  unusually  well. 

Promptly  at  8:15,  the  banquet  hour,  the  ladies  were  marshaled  as  if  they  had  been  Sir  Knights, 
in  single  rank,  and  the  Templars  in  the  Asylum  in  like  manner,  and  in  this  formation  the  splendid 
procession  marched  until  each  Sir  Knight  came  beside  his  wife  or  lady,  and  thus  brought  together, 
moved  on  to  the  banquet  halls,  to  the  music  of  Kretlow's  orchestra.  Preparatory  to  the  Literary 
part  of  the  entertainment,  the  three  center  tables  in  the  main  hall  were  removed,  and  all  those  who 
were  seated  in  the  two  smaller  halls  were  escorted  thither,  and  chairs  thus  provided  for  the  entire 
assembly.    As  may.be  imagined,  the  company  presented  an  unusually  brilliant  spectacle. 

Part  III,  of  the  programme,  was  opened  with  music  by  the  Apollo  quartette,  at  the  close  of 
which  Sovereign  Master  Norman  T.  Cassette  arose  and  delivered  the  address  of  welcome.  He 
said  : 

Ladies  and  Knights  :—  On  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery  I  greet  you,  and  bid  you  wel- 
come. It  has  been  said  that  "small  cheer  and  great  welcome  makes  a  merry  feast,"  and  may  the 
saying  of  Shakespeare  have  been  proven  to  be  a  truism  to-night.  Such  cheer  as  we  have  had,  has 
been  given  you  ;  and  with  "  great  welcome." 


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Report  con-  Ambition  has  provoked  the  eloquence  of  orators  ;  virtue  has  aroused  the  energies  of  the  moral- 
tinued.  ist;  charity  has  coerced  the  sympathetic  to  action;  faith  has  filled  the  believer,  and  hope  has 

inspired  the  discouraged.  Orators,  writers  and  poets  have  been  stirred  to  enthusiasm  when  having 
any  one  of  these  subjects  for  a  theme,  but  few,  if  any,  have  written  or  sung  of  the  pleasures  of 
welcome. 

This  theme,  so  prolific  in  thoughts  of  happiness,  has  seemed  too  realistic  to  exalt  imagination 
into  her  grandest  heights  of  poetic  expression  ;  too  certain  to  fully  augment  anticipation  ;  and  too 
kind  to  enhance  apprehension ;  yet  no  word  in  our  vocabulary  is  so  pregnant  with  all  the  finer 
intonations  of  life.  It  glows  with  the  heavenly  halo  of  the  human  heart.  It  has  a  voiceless 
demeanor  also  in  the  genial  glance  of  the  eye,  and  in  the  generous  grasp  of  the  cordial  hand.  It  mul- 
tiplies the  motive  for  articulate  and  inarticulate  expression,  until  the  melodies  of  human  life  have 
greater  diversity.  It  is  not  constrained  by  either  affluence  or  poverty  ;  and  is  as  grand  in  a  hovel 
as  in  a  palace.  Its  voice  is  as  sonorous  with  the  peasant  as  with  the  prince ;  with  the  ignorant  as 
with  the  educated ;  and  vibrates  with  the  soul-thrill  of  woman,  or  the  heartiness  of  man.  The 
word  welcome  gleams  on  banners,  or,  formed  of  evergreens  or  flowers,  is  a  harbinger  of  subse- 
quent hours  to  the  stranger  who  may  temporarily  sojourn  with  us.  Without  it,  churches  would  be 
sepulchers  for  the  entombment  of  joy ;  our  Masonic  apartments  would  be  cold  and  dreary,  and 
home  would  be  no  longer  home. 

Welcome  !  Welcome  1  How  much  of  the  expression  of  aff'ection  it  makes  up  !  Happiness 
cannot  exist  without  it,  contentment  would  be  unknown  on  earth  ;  and  all  our  hopes  for  the 
hereafter  would  perish.    Blessed,  therefore,  be  genial,  hearty,  grand,  and  sublime  welcome  : 

When  far  away  on  sea  or  land. 
And  beauty  is  on  every  hand. 
The  sky  all  bright,  the  land  so  green, 
And  naught  to  mar  the  lovely  scene  ; 
How  sad  indeed  would  all  these  be, 
If  none  at  home  would  welcome  thee  ! 

How  dread  to  meet  the  world  each  day. 
And  pass  your  neighbors  on  the  way, 
Bejostled  by  the  ones  you  meet, 
A  hermit  on  the  crowded  street ; 
If  not  inspired  by  friends  you  see, 
Who  kindly  speak  and  welcome  thee. 

Just  God  !  we  would  all  madmen  be, 
If  from  ourselves  we  could  not  flee, 
And  find  in  man  that  from  above, 
Which  beareth  semblance  to  Thy  love  ! 
If  we  to  none  could  welcome  give. 
For  what  should  we  desire  to  live  ? 

If  none  to  us  could  welcome  say, 
And  bid  us,  when  we  come,  to  stay, 
Aff'ection  would  seem  cold  and  dead. 
As  if  each  heavenly  hope  had  fled  ! 
Then  blest  may  every  welcome  be  . 
To  all  of  us,  both  you  and  me  ! 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  Sovereign  Master's  welcoming  remarks,  which  were  heartily 
applauded  and  appreciated,  came  music  by  the  q'lartette,  and  Part  IV  was  ushered  in  by  a  strain 
from  the  orchestra.  The  first  regular  toast  or  sentiment  was  "  Fraternal  Unification,"  to  which 
Prince  and  Knight  Reverend  Doctor  Clinton  Locke,  Ver}^  Eminent  Grand  Prelate  of  the  Grand 
Encampment  of  the  United  States,  responded  in  an  admirable  speech,  in  which  he  advocated  the 
unification  of  the  Order  on  the  broad  principles  of  humanity. 

The  next  sentiment  was  "Veracity,"  to  which  Prince  and  Knight  Reverend  Doctor  H.  W. 
Thomas  responded.  He  said  the  programme  had  been  arranged,  apparently,  after  the  manner  of 
a  sermon,  with  five  speakers  to  illustrate  it,  which  was  a  prudent  arrangement,  since  it  would  not 


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be  wise  to  intrust  it  to  one.    The  address  of  the  Sovereign  Master  was  the  exordium  ;  then  it  was  Report 
divided  into  four  heads,  given  in  the  toasts  which  had  been  allotted  to  him  and  the  speakers  who  continued, 
were  to  follow  him.    He  treated  the  subject  given  to  him  as  opposed  to  falsity.  "Welcome" 
would  be  a  fallacy  were  it  not  for  the  truthfulness  which  should  actuate  us  all  in  every  phase  of 
life.    Veracity  was  in  fact  one  of  the  principal  adjuncts  of  correct  living  and  correct  prmciples,  as 
its  opposite,  falsity,  was  the  adjunct  of  bad  living. 

The  third  toast,  "  The  Perniciousness  of  Envy,"  was  responded  to  by  Prince  and  Knight  Rev- 
erend Doctor  R.  A.  Holland,  who  took  up  his  divisions  in  the  spirit  suggested  by  Doctor  Thomas, 
but  he  said  that  while  thinking  of  it  he  had  felt  his  hair  grov/  green,  his  cheek  palUd,  and  his  body 
cold  and  clammy  as  if  a  serpent  was  crawling  over  him.  He  had  never  taken  the  theme  for  the 
subject  of  a  sermon  in  all  his  life  because  it  had  so  much  of  what  was  horrible  in  it,  and  gave  him 
too  many  peculiar  sensations.  Yet  it  was  a  theme  so  prolific  of  thought  that  it  provoked  the 
remarks  he  had  to  offer.  Doctor  Holland  proceeded  in  a  speech  remarkable  for  its  beauty  of 
expression  and  wealth  of  illustration,  to  say  that  envy  was  in  the  eye,  but  the  eye  was  the  light  of  the 
body,  and  the  envy  that  came  through  the  eye  made  the  whole  soul  dark  and  gloomy.  It  dealt 
with  subjects,  not  with  the  thought  to  draw  itself  up  to  that  which  it  envied,  but  to  pull  down  the 
success  in  any  form  which  it  saw,  to  its  own  slimy  and  despicable  level,  "  paring  the  mountain  to 
the  plain,  to  leave  an  equal  baseness."  The  speaker  illustrated  his  subject  by  some  vivid  pictures 
out  of  the  Inferno  of  Dante,  wherein  is  depicted  the  dwelling  place  of  envy  in  the  regions  of  ever- 
lasting  despair. 

To  Prince  and  Knight  Reverend  George  C.  Lorimer  was  allotted  the  toast,  "  Woman  and 
Templarism,'-  and  he  concluded  by  "  the  peroration,"  according  to  the  divisions  laid  down  by 
Doctor  Thomas.  His  opening  remarks  were  facetious  and  playful,  gradually  deepening,  however, 
into  a  sedate  and  dignified  tone,  and  then  rising  into  a  lofty  eulogy  on  woman.  One  of  the  princi- 
pal motives  for  the  organization  of  Templarism,  he  said,  was  woman.  Although  not  members  of 
the  secret  society,  woman  exercised  a  powerful  influence  in  the  Order,  and  the  Templars  had 
vowed  to  maintain  the  character  of  woman  for  chastity  in  her  vocation,  her  integrity,  and  main- 
tenance. Hence  he  advocated  that  woman  clasp  hands  with  the  Templars,  and  aim  to  raise  her 
sex  to  a  place  higher  than  any  known  level  yet  reached  by  her. 

The  banquet  came  to  a  close  at  11:30  o'clock,  and  the  company  then  engaged  in  the  pleasures  of 
the  dance  till  i  o'clock  in  the  morning." 

Credit  is  due  lo  the  following  committees  for  making  this  occasion  so  me-  Efficient 

morable,  to-wit :  Committees 
BANQUET  COMMITTEE. 

Sir  James  Hitchcock,  Chairman ;  Sir  John  E.  Norton,  Vice-Chairman,  and  Sirs  Charles  C. 
Hilton,  Len  W.  Campbell,  and  Henry  D.  Field. 

RECEPTtON  COMMITTEE  BLUE  LODGE  HALL. 
Sir  Robert  E.  Storey,  Chairman  ;  Eminent  Sir  John  S.  Collister,  Vice-Chairman  ; 
And  Sirs 

De  Laskie  Miller,                      Henry  H.  Hobbs,  Arthur  Gleason, 

Herbert  M.  Russell,                  Fred  M.  Barrett,  Henry  H.  Schenck, 

Bruno  H.  Goll,                         Frank  S.  Oliver,  George  T.  Kessler, 

Theodore  H.  Patterson,            A  Charles  Potter,  J.  Frank  Foster,  and 
William  C.  MauU. 

DANSANTE  FLOOR  COMMITTEE. 
Sir  Albert  W.  Adcock,  Chairman;  William  E.  Poulson,  Vice-Chairman; 
And  Sirs 

Frank  H.  Tower,                     James  G.  Miller,  John  H.  Huyck, 

Peter  Daggy,                           George  Hewett  James  M.  Whitehead, 

William  A.  McLean,                 George  C.  Fry,  Leonard  H.  Jaquith. 

Stephen  Laskey,                      Julius  P.  Meyer,  Joshua  G.  Woods, 

James  T.  Phillips,                    B.  F.  Terhune,  John  F.  Thacker, 

F.  M.  Webster,                        Sylvester  Gaunt,  Frank  Sheffield, 

Henry  J.  Goodrich,                  Charles  M.  Clark,  George  Thom.pson, 

W.  S.  Griffith,                          James  W  Buell,  Elijah  M.  Horton 

William  T.  DeLuce,                 Alfred  Russell,  William  D.  Clark, 

William  B.  Webb,                    WiUard  H.  James,  Joseph  C.  Neeley! 


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Henry  D.  Field, 
Sylvester  Gaunt, 
Frank  Hulburd, 
William  H.  Blackler, 
William  W.  Ramsey, 
Charles  H.  Ferguson, 
Samuel  S.  McNaughton, 
John  C.  Tennis, 


A  new  ten 
year  lease. 


Siloam  Com- 
mandery. 


Thirty-sev- 
enth annual. 


Report  of 
Em.  Sir 
Gassette. 


His  re-elec- 
tion. 


Installation. 


Sociables. 


GUARDS. 
Henry  F.  Comstock, 
Thomas  C.  Penington, 
George  W.  Hubbard, 
Charles  C.  Hilton, 
Frank  S.  Oliver, 
Robert  M.  Johnson, 
Morris  J.  Moth, 
Myron  S.  Crego, 


Harris  A.  Wheeler, 
James  J.  Bruton, 
R.  Gordon  Ellis, 
Stephen  Laskey, 
William  T.  DeLuce, 
John  A.  Lyndon, 
Abram  B  rugger,  Jr., 
John  W.  May. 


At  the  922d  Stated  Conclave,  held  October  3d,  1882,  the  Eminent  Com-- 
mander  and  Board  of  Trustees  were  authorized  and  empowered  by  the  unani- 
mous vote  of  the  Commandery  to  renew  the  lease  for  the  apartments  occupied 
by  the  Commandery,  72  to  78  Monroe  street,  for  a  period  of  ten  years,  from 
January  1st,  1884,  to  January  1st,  1894,  at  a  rental  of  three  thousand  dollars  per 
annum,  and  the  lease  was  subsequently  duly  executed,  it  having  met  with  the 
sanction  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Siloam  Commandery  No.  54,  K.  T.,  of  Oak  Park,  Illinois,  having  been 
granted  a  charter  by  the  Grand  Commandery,  notified  Apollo  Commandery 
of  the  fact  at  the  925th  Stated  Conclave,  held  November  21st,  and  five  valiant 
and  true  Templars  ceased  to  be  members  of  Apollo  Commandery, 

The  926th  Stated  and  Thirty  seventh  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Commandery, 
was  held  December  5th,  1882,  three  hundred  and  nine  Sir  Knights  besides 
officers  and  visitors  being  present. 

The  Eminent  Commander  made  report  that  the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross  had 
been  conferred  but  twice,  and  it  was  the  opinion  of  those  competent  to  judge 
that  in  all  their  essentials  they  had  not  been  excelled  by  either  this  or  any  Com- 
mandery; that  the  Red  Cross  Order  had  been  conferred  upon  fifty-four;  and 
the  Order  of  the  Temple  upon  Forty-six ;  that  there  had  been  fifty-four  Con- 
claves held,  with  an  average  attendance  of  fifty-three;  that  ^2,923.66  had  been 
paid  into  the  several  funds  of  the  Commandery;  that  the  Commandery  did  not 
owe  a  dollar  save  for  small  bills  accrued  but  not  due  ;  and  that  the  financial 
condition  of  the  Commandery  was  the  best  that  it  had  ever  been  since  it  moved 
into  the  Asylum.  He  might  have  added  in  its  history  ^3,524.98  being  in  the 
hands  of  the  Treasurer  in  the  various  funds  in  cash. 

On  nomination  of  Sir  James  H.  McVicker,  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Gassette 
was  re-elected. 

At  the  927th  Stated  Conclave,  held  December  19th,  1882,  the  officers-elect 
were  installed.  At  the  same  Conclave  it  was  also  determined  to  give  five 
sociables  in  the  apartments  of  the  Commandery  during  the  winter  and 
spring  months ;  thred  for  the  members  of  the  Commandery  and  their  families, 
and  two  Inter-Commandery  sociables,  at  which  the  Sir  Knights  of  all  the  Chi- 
cago Commanderies,  with  their  ladies,  should  be  invited  as  guests  of  Apollo 
Commandery.  This  intention  was  duly  carried  into  execution ;  the  sociables, 
were  largely  attended,  and  enjoyment  and  fraternal  affiliation  were  the  result. 
The  Committee  on  Sociables  consisted  of  Sirs  James  Hitchcock,  Harris  A. 
Wheeler,  Benjamin  B.  Bullwinkle,  Leonard  W.  Campbell,  David  Ray  Crego, 
Henry  S.  Tiffany,  and  George  H.  Van  Pelt,  and  they  had  the  management  of 
both  sociables  and  programmes. 


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CHAPTER  X. 

A.  D.  1883. 

At  the  934th  Stated  Conclave,  held  April  3d,  1883,  all  the  Sir  Knights  of  Deteraiineto 
the  Commandery  having  been  notified  of  the  subject  matter  to  be  brought  be-  ^°  °  urope. 
fore  the  Commandery ;  Itineraries  for  tours  in  Europe,  prepared  by  Thomas 
Cook  and  Sons,  were  read.  Sir  E.  M.  Jenkins,  a  member  of  Allegheny 
Commandery  of  Pittsburg,  and  an  American  and  European  Tourist  Agent,  be- 
ing present,  then  furnished  several  Itineraries  for  European  tours,  whereupon 
Sir  James  Hitchcock  moved  that  Apollo  Commandery  make  a  pilgrimage  to 
Europe,  which  motion  being  duly  seconded  was  put  to  vote  and  carried,  there 
being  only  /our  votes  in  the  negative. 

Tuesday  evening,  April  17th,  of  the  same  year,  at  the  935th  Stated  Conclave,  SnsTsTed. 
on  motion  of  Eminent  Sir  Walter  A.  Stevens,  it  was  voted — 

"  That  Apollo  Commandery  ask  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  Knights  Templar  for 
a  Dispensation  authorizing  said  Commandery  to  leave  the  Grand  Jurisdiction  of  Illinois  on  July 
12th,  1883,  equipped,  and  also  request  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  to  ask  the  Grand 
Commander  of  Knights  Templar  of  New  York  for  a  Dispensation  authorizing  Apollo  Command- 
ery to  pass  through  the  Grand  Jurisdiction  of  New  York,  on  the  13th  and  14th  days  of  July,  1883, 
equipped;  and  the  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  of  Templars  of  the  United  States  of  America,  for 
a  Dispensation  authorizing  said  Commandery  to  pass  through  several  Grand  Jurisdictions 
equipped,  for  the  purpose  of  embarking  for  Europe." 

At  the  936th  Stated  Conclave,  held  May  ist,  the  following  communication 
was  received  from  Palestine  Commandery  No.  18,  Knights  Templar,  of  New 
York  City  : 

Asylum  of  Palestine  Commandery,  No.  18,  Knights  Templar, 
Masonic  Temple,  Sixth  Avenue  and  Twenty-third  Street,  tendered  by 

New  York,  April  26th,  1883. 
To  the  Eminent  Comviander  and  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery,  Chicago,  Illinois  : 
Sir  Knights  : 

At  the  last  Regular  Conclave  of  this  Commandery,  it  was  unanimously  Palestine 

Resolved,  That  an  escort  should  be  tendered  your  Commandery  on  the  occasion  of  its  passage 
through  this  city  en  route  for  Europe 

I  have,  therefore,  the  honor  of  formally  tendering  you  such  escort,  and  I  hope  that  it  may  be  agree- 
able for  you  to  accept  the  proffered  courtesy.  Commandery. 

Requesting  an  early  reply,  with  such  information  that  will  serve  to  guide  our  committee  in 
making  its  arrangements,  I  am  truly  and  courteously. 

Attest,  Eugene  S.  Eunson, 

Charles  S.  Champlin,  Recorder.  Commander. 
The  following  reply  was  sent  : 

Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar.  ^ 

Tir        1    00  Escort 
Chicago,  May  2d,  1883.  accepted. 
To  the  Eminent  Commander,  Officers,  and  Sir  Knights  of  Palestine  Commandery,  No.  18, 

Knights  Templar,  Stationed  in  New  York  : 
Dear  Praters  : 

At  the  936th  Stated  Conclave  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  1,  Knights  Templar,  held  May  ist, 
1883,  your  very  courteous  communication  tendering  an  escort  to  Apollo  Commandery  on  the 


Escort 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Rt.  Em. 


Commander 


Order. 


Dispensa- 


tions from 


the  Most 


Em.  Grand 


Master  and 


occasion  of  its  passage  through  your  city  en  route  for  Europe,  was  read  and  ordered  of  record,  and 
the  Recorder  instructed  to  reply  that  Apollo  Commandery  accepts  with  sincere  thanks  the  prof- 
fered courtesy.  Courteously  yours, 

Samuel  M.  Henderson,' 
[seal.]  Recorder, 

At  the  same  Conclave,  General  Order  No.  3,  of  the  Right  Eminent  Grand 
Commander,  Sir  Henry  Turner  was  received  and  read.  Among  other  proposi-  • 
tions  were  the  following  : 

"  The  Order  of  Knights  Templar  is  a  secret  organization.  All  its  business,  work  and  proceed- 
ings are  specifically  devoted  to  its  own  private  purposes,  which  are  solely  and^ntirely  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Commandery,  which  each  and  every  member  vows  to  "  keep  sacredly  secret."  The 
spirit  of  our  Order  inculcates  secrecy,  the  perpetuity  of  our  institution  demands  it.  While  mem- 
bers may  cdhfer  without  the  Asylum,  of  that  which  transpires  within  it,  vigilance  and  caution 
should  be  exercised  that  none  others  hear. 

The  Grand  Commander  is  pained  to  observe  many  and  repeated  infractions  of  these  rules  of 
the  Order  and  also  a  far  more  serious  dereliction,  a  violation  of  sacred  vo-ws,  which,  if  not  discon- 
tinued, must  subject  the  offender  to  discipline  and  its  penalties.  The  Press  cannot  obtain  for 
publication  any  information,  and  consequent  severe  and  frequently  derogatory  criticism,  unless  it 
be  through  the  culpable  breach  of  the  often  repeated  pledges  of  secrecy." 


[883,  the  following  Dispensa- 


At  the  937th  Stated  Conclave,  held  May  15th, 
tions  were  received : 

Grand  Encampment  of  Knights  Templar  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
Benjamin  Dean,  Grand  Master.  Office  of  the  Grand  Master, 

Boston,  April  27th,  1883. 

Normatt  T.  Cassette,  Eminent  Commander  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Chicago,  Illinois  : 
Dear  Sir  Knight  : 

I  am  in  receipt  of  your  communication  of  the  23d  inst.,  by  which  it  appears  that  Apollo  Com- 
mandery desires  from  me  a  Dispensation  "  authoring  said  Commandery  to  pass  through  several 
Grand  Jurisdictions  equipped,  fdr  the  purpose  of  embarking  for  Europe." 

If  your  Commandery  desire  to  appear  in  public  in  Templar  Costume,  within  any  one  State 
Grand  Jurisdiction,  a  Dispensation  of  the  State  Grand  Jurisdiction  will  be  required.  If  said  Com- 
mandery shall  be  so  situated  during  its  pilgrimage  that  a  Dispensation  within  my  province  to  grant 
is  desirable,  such  Dispensation  is  hereby  cheerfully  given. 

Allow  me,  Eminent  Sir,  to  express  my  wish  that  the  pilgrimage  of  Apollo  Commandery  maybe 
a  pleasant  and  profitable  one,  that  it  may  receive  wherever  it  goes  that  regard  the  estimable  char- 
acter of  its  members  entitle  it  to,  and  that  it  may  return  to  its  great  island  city  home  VN'ith  its 
number  undiminished. 

I  am  Fraternally  and  Sincerely  Yours, 
[seal  ]  Benjamin  Dean, 


Grand 


Commander 


received. 


Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  of  Illinois, 
Headquarters  of  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander. 
To  all  Valiant  and  Magnanimous  Knights  Te7nplar  to  whom  these  presents  come,  Greeting: 

Reposing  full  Confidence  and  Trust  in  our  well  beloved  Praters  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i, 
Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Chicago,  Illinois. 

I  therefore  issue  this  my  Special  Dispensation,  granting  permission  for  them  to  pass  beyond  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois,  July  12th,  1883,  for  the  purpose  of  making  a 
pilgrimage  into  foieign  jurisdictions. 

I  courteously  recommend  them  to  the  members  of  our  Order  wherever  they  may  meet  as  True 
afid  Courteous  Knights  Templar. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal,  this  First  day  of  May,  1883,  A.  O.  765. 

[seal.]  Henry  Turner,  Grand  Commander. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR, 


77 


At  the  same  Conclave  was  also  read  the  following  letter  from  Very  Eminent  Let^r^from 
Sir  T.  B.  Whytehead,  of  York,  England;  Whytehead 

Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory,  of  England. 
York,  April  25th,  1883. 
Eminent  Sir  Knight  Norman  T.  Gassette — Frater  in  Christ  : 

I  notice  from  the  '■'Freemason'"  that  you  will  be  the  leader  of  a  large  party  of  Templars  who  pro- 
pose to  visit  this  country  next  July.  On  behalf  of  the  Knights  of  York,  and  North  and  East 
Yorkshire,,!  wish  to  express  to  you  the  gratification  we  would  feel  if  you  could  arrange  to  visit  this 
ancient  Masonic  center.  On  a  previous  occasion  we  had  the  pleasure  of  welcoming  a  party 
of  your  fellow  countrymen  of  the  Order  of  the  Temple,  who  were  members  of  the  Mary  Com- 
mandery,  of  Philadelphia.  If  the  members  of  Apollo  Commandery  will  visit  York,  lean  assure 
you  that  they  will  be  cordially  received.  We  should  much  like  to  receive  them  in  our  hall  as 
Knights  Templar,  and  would  exemplify  our  Ritual,  if  it  were  desired,  and  I  should  be  most  happy 
to  act  in  any  way  as  the  exponent  of  the  many  antiquities  that  are  to  be  seen  in  this  old  Capital  of 
the  North. 

I  am  Yours  in  the  Bonds  of  the  Order, 
[seal.]  T.  B.  Whytehead, 

P.  E.  P.,  P.  G.  C.  of  Guards,  Eng.,  Hon.  Prov.  Prior  of  Canada. 

Upon  motion,  the  Commandery  voted  to  accept  the  invitation,  and  the  Emi-  invitation 
nent  Commander  was  requested  to  reply  to  the  letter  of  invitation,'and  accept  the  accepted, 
same  in  the  name  of  Apollo  Commandery.    In  furtherance  of  such  acceptance, 
the  Eminent  Commander  indited  the  following  letter : 

T.  B.  Whytehead,  Chicago,  May,  24th,  1883.  rpj^j^ 

York,  England,  sent. 
Right  Eminent  Sir  and  Frater  in  Christ  : 
Your  esteemed  favor  dated  April  24th  came  duly  to  hand  and  was  submitted  to  Apollo  Com- 
mandery, No.  1,  Knights  Templar,  at  the  next  Stated  Conclave  after  its  receipt.  The  Com- 
mandery by  vote  requested  me  to  gratefully  acknowledge  the  receipt  and  to  accept  the  invitation 
to  visit  York  and  witness  the  exemplification  of  the  work  under  the  auspices  of  the  Knights  of 
York,  and  North  and  .East  Yorkshire,  if  it  can  possibly  be  arranged  to  do  so.  Enclosed  please  find 
Itineraries.  If  you  can  designate  when  the  visit  can  be  best  made  in  conformity  with  your  own 
convenience  and  the  dates  given  upon  the  Itinerary  sent,  we  shall  be  glad  to  avail  ourselves  of  the 
opportunity  presented  to  exchange  fraternal  greetings  with  our  Fraters  of  England.  Awaiting 
your  reply,  with  great  consideration  on  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar, 
of  Chicago,  and  myself,  I  am 

Courteously  yours  in  the  Bonds  of  the  Order, 

Norman  T.  Gassette,  Eminent  Commander. 

The  following  answer  was  received :  .  , 

°  Answered. 

Norman  T.  Cassette,  Esq.,  York,  June  7th,  1883. 

Eminent  Frater  in  Christ  : 

Your  communication  of  May  24th,  from  Chicago,  reached  me  this  morning.  I  am  delighted  to 
hear  that  we  are  likely  to  have  the  pleasure  of  a  visit  from  the  members  of  ycur  Commandery. 
In  looking  over  your  Itineraries  I  see  a  difficulty  of  selecting  a  date,  since  you  seem  to  have  so 
short  a  time,  in  any  case,  to  devote  to  England.  York  would  take  a  whole  day  to  do  its  many 
antiquarian  and  Masonic  objects  justice,  and  when  we  had  the  honor  of  entertaining  the  pilgrims 
of  the  Mary  Commandery,  Philadelphia,  Penn.,  a  few  years  ago,  they  spent  here  two  nights  and 
a  day.    I  think  the  best  way  will  be  for  you  to  select  a  day  and  let  us  know  when  it  is  to  be. 

On  the  i8th  day  of  July,  the  Prince  of  Wales  will  lay  a  foundation  stone  in  York,  with  Masonic 
honors,  but  you  will  not  be  in  time  for  that  ceremony. 

I  suppose  your  visit  will  be  most  easily  made,  as  far  as  you  are  concerned,  either  at  the  begin- 
ning or  close  of  your  tour,  but  as  I  said,  if  you  will  let  us  know,  we  will  arrange  matters  accord- 
ingly.   Let  us  know  at  the  same  time  how  many  of  you  will  come. 

Trusting  to  hear  details  from  you  shortly,  I  am 

Your  Faithful  Brother, 

T.  B.  Whytehead. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Date  of  visit 
fixed. 


Other 
letters. 


Dispensation 


The  date  of  the  visit  of  Apollo  Commandery,  being  left  to  the  selection  of  that 
body,  the  choice  was  made  of  July  24th,  and  the  following  letter  sent : 

Chicago,  June  21st,  1883. 

T.  B.  Whytehead, 

P.  E.  P.,  P.  G.,  Captain  of  Guards,  England,  Hon.  Prov.  Prior  of  Canada. 
Eminent  Sir  Knight  :  r  1         t  c 

Your  valued  favor  dated  at  York,  the  7th  inst,  is  before  me,  with  the  copy  of  the  By-Laws  of 
Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory.  Apollo  Commandery  will  visit  you  July  24th.  We  shall  number  from 
xoo  to  200  Knights  and  Ladies.  It  would  be  pleasant  for  us  to  lengthen  our  stay  at  York,  but  we 
shall  find  it  impossible,  besides  it  would  trouble  you  too  much,  our  number  being  so  great.  We 
anticipate  a  very  delightful  time  while  we  are  with  you,  and  hope  and  expect  to  witness  the  exem- 
plification of  your  Ritual.  July  24th  we  shall  be  with  you,  when  I  hope  to  have  the  pleasure  of 
grasping  you  by  the  hand. 

Courteously, 

Norman  T,  Cassette,  Eminent  Commander. 

Subsequently  quite  a  number  of  communications  were  received  from  Ebor 
Preceptory  of  York,  and  duly  acknowledged,  but  it  is  unnecessary  to  recapitu- 
late them  here. 

On  motion  and  vote  at  the  937  Stated  Conclave,  the  Grand  Commander  was 
also  requested  to  grant  his  Dispensation  authorizing  Apollo  Commandery  to 
omit  holding  Stated  Conclaves  from  July  3d,  1883,  until  Sept.  i8th  of  the  same 
year,  which  request  was  granted  and  the  Dispensation  read  at  the  938th  Sta- 
ted Conclave,  held  June  5th,  to  wit: 

.p..  ..  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  of  Illinois, 

dispensation  Headquarters  of  the  R.  E.  Grand  Commander, 

Chicago,  May  17th,  1883. 

To  the  Eminent  Commander,  Officers  and  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  K.  T. : 

Good  cause  having  been  shown,  I,  by  virtue  of  the  power  in  me  vested  as  Grand  Co-mander  of 
Knights  Templar  in  Illinois,  do  hereby  grant  this  my  Dispensation  authorizing  Apollo  Com- 
mandery,  No.  x,  Knights  Templar,  to  omit  holding  of  Conclaves  after  July  3rd,.883,  until  Sep- 

'"i^e  anT^ropt  return  will  be  made  to  me  of  the  action  had  under  this  authority,  and  this  dis- 
pensation  filed  in  the  archives  of  the  Commandery.  ,  00     a  n 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal,  this  17th  day  of  May,  A.  D.,  1883,  A.  O.,  765. 
[seal.]  Henry  Turner,  Grand  Commander. 

The  following  was  also  received  at  the  same  Conclave,  to  wit : 

Office  of  the  Grand  Commander,  K.  T.,  State  of  New  York, 
Buffalo,  May  i6th,  1-883. 

To  aU  whom  it  may  concern,  but  more  especially  the  Sir  Knights  of  the  State  of  New  York  : 

mereas  Application  has  been  made  by  R.  E.  Sir  Henry  Turner,  Grand  Commander  oi 
Kn^hts  Templar  of  Illinois,  to  permit  Apollo  Comm^dery,  No.  x,  K.  T.,  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 

A^ough  Zr  gLa  Jurisdiction  in  July  next,  on  such  days  as  n,ay  be  n,ost  conven.ent  to  them. 
equipped  ^^^^  s=a,,  o„  .he  day  and  place  ahove  written. 

[seal.]  John  S.  Bartlett,  Grand  Commander. 


recei 


Permitted  to 
parade  in 
New  York. 


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The  following  was  the  Daily  Itinerary  as  amended,  and  to  be  observed  :  Daily 

rr.  Itineraries. 
Tour  No.  i.— LONDON  AND  PARIS. 

^^^^  DAILY  ITINERARY. 

Thursday,  yuly  Z5.-Leave  Chicago  by  special  train  of  Wagner  sleepers  about  7  p.  m  • 
Michigan  Central  R.  R. 
Friday,  yuly  ^j.-Breakfast  at  St.  Thomas.    Dine  at  Clifton  House,  Niagara  Falls,  where 
one  hour  will  be  given.    Supper  at  Syracuse. 

Saturday,  yuly  ,4-Arnve  at  Grand  Central  Depot,  New  York,  about  7  A.  M.  Breakfast  at 
Grand  Union  Hotel.  Ladies  being  escorted  to  the  steamer,  and  all  bag- 
gage, large  and  small,  being  placed  on  board,  march  at  a  convenient 
hour  to  the  dock  of  the  Anchor  line,  and  sail  by  steamer  "  City  of 
Rome,'"  at  12  o'clock. 

Saturday,  yuly  14,  till^  On  the  Atlamic  Ocean  on  the  magnificient  steamer     City  of  Rome  " 
Sunday,  yuly  22.      J  the  largest  and  most  elegant  in  the  world. 
Sunday,  yuly  22.— Due  at  Queenstown.    Land  mails 

Monday,  yuly  .j.-May  expect  to  reach  Liverpool,  stay  at  the  Great  North^a,estern  Hotel. 
Tuesday,  yuly  2^.-By  special  train  to  York,  England. 
Wednesday,  yuly  25-, ")  ^      .  •    t  , 
Thursday,  yuly  2b.  J  ^P^^t  m  London,  sight  seeing. 

Thursday,  yuly  .6.-Leave  London  by  night  service.  Short  Sea  Route,  for  Paris,  passing 
through  Boulogne  and  Amiens. 
Friday,  yuly  27.-Due  in  Paris  for  Breakfast,  Hotel  Splendid 
Friday,  yuly  27,  Saturday,^  yuly  28,  Sunday,  yuly  2g,  Monday,  yuly  ^o.-To  be  spent  in 
Pans,  sight  seeing. 

Monday,  yuly  so.-Le.vc  Paris  by  night  service  by  Short  Sea  Route  for  London. 
Tuesday,  ^..-Arrive  in  London  for  breakfast.    Go  to  Midland  Grand  Hotel.  Spend 

the  day  without  any  programme.    Leave  by  midnight  train  in  sleeping 
cars  for  Liverpool. 

Wednesday,  August  ..-Breakfast  and  lunch  at  the  Great  North-western  Hotel.    Go  on  board  of 

^,       ,      ^  and  sail  with  tide  down  the  Mersey 

Thursday,  August  2.~Krrr..  at  Queenstown  possibly  early  enough  to  visit  Co^.  Embark 
mails.    Sail  for  New  York  at  4:30  p.  m 
Friday,  August  70.— Expect  to  arrive  in  New  York 

""Tn^'  f'""',  .'^  -™.c.i„„s  ,0  Chicago 

M.„,ay,  A,.,usi  .,.-Ar„ve  i„  Chicago  for  hreakfas..   Ti,„e  occupied,  3.  days'  Cos.  ^,50. 

suit  1°m'7LZt  ""'I  r        ''""'^  London  and  Paris  in  any  way  ,0 

i^h/riirfosi^T^rre 


To™  No.  ..-LONDON,  HOLLAND.  BELGIDM,  THE  RHINE  AND  PARIS.  Itineraries 

T^/  ,  DAILY  ITINERARY.  ronHniiPfl 

7J,ursJa,  yufy  ...-Leave  Chicago  as  shown  in  Tour  No.  r  up  .„  London 

as  shown  in  Tour  No   i  ' 
Friday,  yuly  2,.-Le...  London  by  Great  W;stern  Continental  Express  at  7.ro  p,  m  for 
Harwich    and  take  large  steamer  across  North  Sea  (berths  being 
provided)  for  Rotterdam.  ^ 
Saturday,  7./,     -Arrive  in  Rotterdam  for  breakfast,  spend  a  short  time  in  the  old  city 
Sundav  7ulv  .r     ^      a      T  *°  ^^^^'erdam  to  see  the  International  Exposition. 
Sunday,  yuly  ...-Spend  ,n  Amsterdam  or  The  Hague-the  capital  of  Holland  ;  and  visit 
Schevergen-the  Dutch  Coney  Island. 
Monday,         ,o.-Leave  by  morning  express  train,  through  Utrecht,  Dusseldorf,  Cologne 
and  along  the  banks  of  the  Rhine  to  Bonn,  Coblentz,  Bingen,  to 
Meyence  or  Weisbaden,  to  spend  the  night. 


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Itineraries 
continued. 


Itineraries 
connnued. 


Tuesday,  July  31 - 
Wednesday,  August  i- 
Thursday,  August  2.— 

Friday,  August  3,  Satu 


Monday,  August  b 
Tuesday,  August  J. 


Wednesday,  Augusts. 
Thursday,  August  g. 
Saturday,  Atigzist  18. 

Monday,  August  20. 


-By  steamboat  down  the  Rhine  to  Cologne. 
-To  be  spent  in  Brussels. 

-Travel  from  Brussels  to  Paris.    Go  by  way  of  Rheims  and  see  the 

famous  Cathedral.    Arrive  same  evening.    Hotel  Splendid, 
rday,  August  4,  Sunday,  Augusts,  Moiiday,  Augtist  6.— To  be  spent  in 
Paris,  sight  seeing,  carriages  being  engaged  for  that  purpose,  as  shown 
in  the  preceding  programme. 
—Leave  Paris  by  Short  Sea  Route  for  London. 

—Arrive  in  Loudon  for  breakfast  {Midland  Grand  Hotel).  Spend  the  day 
in  London  without  any  programme,  leaving  by  midnight  train,  in 
.     sleeping  cars,  for  Liverpool. 
,— Breakfast  and  lunch  in  Liverpool,  and  embark  in  steamer  "  Belgravia." 
.—Arrive  in  Queenstown  ;  if  eariy  enough,  go  ashore.    Sail  for  New  York. 
Due  to  arrive  in  New  York,  and  go  by  New  York  Central  R.  R.  and 
connections  to  Chicago. 
.—Expect  to  reach  Chicago.    Time  occupied  39  days.    Cost  $300. 


Tour  No.  3.-LONDON.  PARIS  AND  SWITZERLAND.  ■ 

DAILY  ITINERARY. 

Thursday,  July  72.-Leave  Chicago  as  shown,  and  according  to  Tour  No.  i  to  London  and 
-Paris. 

Friday,  July  27,  Saturday,  July  28,  Sunday  July  ^9.-Spend  in  Paris,  sightseeing,  carnages 
being  provided  as  shown. 
Monday,  July  jO.-By  morning  express  train  to  Trays,  Belford,  Bale  and  Lucerne.  Hotel 
Schzueitzerhoff. 

Tuesday,  July  j/.-Make  a  steamboat  excursion  down  the  Lake  of  Lucerne  to  Fluelen  and 
return.    A  beautiful  trip. 
Wednesday,  August  /.-By  boat  to  Alpnacht,  and  by  diligence  over  the  Bmnig  Pass  to  Brenitz 
and  by  boat  over  the  Lake  to  Giesbach,  to  the  illuminated  waterfall 
Gieshach  Hotel. 

Thursday,  August  2.-Boat  to  Interiacken.    Make  an  excursion  in  carriages  to  the  Grinden- 
wald,  to  see  the  Glaciers  and  Ice  Caves. 
Friday,  August  3. -^y  train  to  Dariingen,  boat  on  Lake  Thun  to  Thun,  train  to  Berne 
Friburg,  Lausanne,  and  Geneva,  stopping  over  a  train  at  Berne.  Hotel 
in  Geneva,  De  la  Paix. 

Saturday,  August  .^..-Spend  the  best  part  of  the  day  in  Geneva,  going  by  afternoon  train  to 
Paris.    Hotel  Splendid. 

Sunday,  Augusts,  Monday,  August  b.-^^^r.^  the  time  in  Paris  seeing  such  places  as  were 
missed  on  first  visit. 
Monday,  August  6.-G0  by  night  train,  Short  Sea  Route,  to  London. 

Tuesday  Azcgust  7.-Arrive  in  London  for  breakfast;  Midland  Grand  Hotel.  Spend  the 
day  without  programme.  Go  to  Liverpool  by  night  train  in  sleeping 
cars. 

Wednesday,  August  ^.-Breakfast  and  lunch  in  Liverpool.    Sail  by  steamer  "  Belgravia. 
Thursday,   August  9.— Reach  Queenstown. 

Saturday,  August  20.-Due  to  arrive  in  New  York,  and  go  to  Chicago. 

Sunday,  ^^.-Expected  to  arrive  in  Chicago.    Time  occupied,  39  days.    Cost,  ? 300. 


Tour  No.  4.-LONDON,  THE  RHINE,  SWITZERLAND,  PARIS  AND  SCOTLAND. 


DAILY  ITINERARY. 


Thursday,  Jitly  72.— Leave  Chicago  as  shown. 

Tuesday,  July  ^.^.-Reach  York,  England. 
Wednesday,  July  23,  Thursday,  July  2b,  Friday,  July  ^^.-Spend  in  London,  sight-seeing,  as 
stated. 


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81 


Friday,  Jt.ly  ^7.- Leave  London  by  7:10  p.  m.  express  train  to  Harwich,  taking  boat  Itinerary 
across  North  Sea  to  Antwerp,  berths  being  reserved.  continued. 
Saturday,  July  28.-ArTWe  in  Antwerp  for  breakfast.     Stop  long  enough  to  see  the  Cathe- 
dral and  Ruben's  wonderful  paintings,  and  go  to  Brussels  by  afternoon 
train.    HoieZ  1'  Emperor. 
Sunday,  yuly  59.-Spend  in  Brussels,  the  miniature  Paris.    The  Churches  and  Galleries 
are  to  be  seen.    Those  who  desire  may  visit  Waterioo  battlefield,  and 
carriages  will  be  engaged. 
Monday,  Jtcly  jo.-Leave  Brussels  by  morning  express  train  for  Liege,  Aix-la-Chapelie  and 
Cologne.    Arrive  early  enough  to  see  the  Church,  the  Cologne  manu- 
factories, etc.    Hotel du  Dom. 
Tuesday,  July  31. -^y  steamboat  up  the  River  Rhine  past  Bonn,  Coblentz  to  Bingen  or 
Mayence,  and  train  through  to  Heidelberg.    Hotel  Victoria. 
Wednesday,  August  ^.-Spend  the  forenoon  in  a  visit  to  the  old  Castle  and  the  University. 

Going  by  afternoon  train  to  Baden  Baden.    Hotel  Bellevue. 
Thursday,  August  2.-By  express  train  through  the  borders  of  the  Black  Forest,  to  Ball  and 
Lucerne.    Hotel  Schweitzerhoff. 
Friday,  Augusts—Make  an  excursion,  by  steamboat,  down  the  beautiful  Lake  Lucerne 
to  Fluelen  and  back.    Pass  William  Tell  Chapel.  ' 
Satt^rday,  August  4.-By  boat  to  Alpnacht,  diligence  across  the  Brunig  Pass,  to  Brientz,  and 

by  boat  to  Boeningen  and  Interiacken.    Hotel  des  Alps. 
Sunday,  August  5.— Spend  in  Interiacken,  the  Swiss  Saratoga. 

Monday,  August  6.-Make  an  excursion,  in  carriages,  to  the  Grindenwald  Glaciers  and  Ice 
Caves. 

Tuesday,  August  7.-By  train  to  Darlingen,  and  boat  on  Lake  Thun,  then  train  to  Berne 
where  a  short  stop  will  be  made  between  trains  and  a  drive  had  around 
the  Swiss  Capital,  then  by  train  through  Friburg  and  Lausanne  to 
Geneva.  Hotel de  la  Paix.  Or,  if  desired,  the  Grindenwald  Glaciers 
may  be  seen  on  Sunday. 
Monday,  August  6.-Make  the  trip  as  shown  above,  from  Interiacken  to  Berne,  Friburg  and 

Lausanne.  Hotel  Richemont. 
Tuesday,  August  ^.-By  boat  from  Lausanne  down  the  Lake  Leman  to  Geneva 
Wednesday,  August  <S.— Spend  in  Geneva. 


,^^.^^..^9.-By  fast  morning  express  through  Culoz,  Dijon  and  Fontainbleau  to 
Pans.    Due  same  night.    Hotel  Splendid. 
Friday,  August  10,  Saturday,  August  ,1,  Sunday,  August  12,  Monday,  August  13 -To  be 
spent  in  Paris,  sight  seeing,  carriages   being  supplied,  as  shown 
previously. 

Monday,  August  /J. -Travel  by  night  express,  Short  Sea  Route,  to  London. 

Tuesday,  August  /^.-Arrive  in  London  for  breakfast.    Midland  Grand  Hotel.    Spend  the 

day  in  London.    Leave  by  night  express  in  sleeping  cars  for  Edin- 

burg.     Windsor  Hotel. 

Wednesday,  August  JS.-?>V^nd  in  Edinburg,  carriages  being  supplied  to  convey  the  party  to 
Holyrood  Palace  and  Abbey,  then  to  Edinburg  Castle,  etc 

Thursday,  August  z6.-Leave  Edinburg  by  morning  train  for  Steriing  and  Callander  and 
through  the  Trossach  in  coaches  ;  then  by  boat  through  Loch  Katrina 
Loch  Lomond  to  Glasgow.    Central  or  Cochburn  Hotel. 
Friday,  August  /^.-Spend  the  day  in  Glasgow,  sight-seeing.    Leave  by  train  It  5-00  p  m 
for  Greenock,  and  take  steamer  -Anchorta,"   which  sails  aboui 

8:00  p.  M. 

Saturday,  August  /5.-Reach  Londonderry,  take  on  mails,  and  sail  for  New  York 
Monday,  August  27.— Due  in  New  York. 
Wednesday,  August  3g.-Expcct  to  return  to  Chicago.   Time  occupied,  48  days.   Cost,  ^375. 


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Escort  of 
Oriental 
Consistor\- 
accepted. 


Roster 


The  subjoined  letter  was  received  from  Illustrious  Commander-in-Chief,  Emi- 
nent Sir  Henry  H.  Pond,  and  the  escort  tendered  was  promptly  and  cordially 

accepted:  _ 

Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite, 

Chicago,  July  yth,  1883. 

Norman  T.  Cassette,  Eminent  Commander  Apollo  Commanders-,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar. 

Dear  Sir  and  Prater  :  .  ^     .         c    td  .  d  .  c  • 

Permit  me  in  mv  official  capacity  as  Commander-in-Chief  of  Oriental  Consistor^^  S.  .P.  .R.  .b.  . 
32°  to  tender  you  the  services  of  my  command  as  escort  to  Apollo  No. 

 -ru.,^..A-..r  ^^r^nlncr  Tnlv  i2th.  cvcr  Draving  that  the  Knighi 

'  continue  united  in  one  fraternal 
With  ^surances  of  my  highest  regards  and  esteem,  I  have 
Courteously  yours, 

Henry  H.  Pond,  33° 
Commander-in-Chief  Oriental  Consistory,  S.-.P.-.R.-.S.-.  32°. 


departure  for 

Eurie7ne"xt  Thursday  evening,  July  xath,  ever  praying  that  the  Knightly  ties  of  friendship  and 
brotherly  love  existing  between  these  two  organizations  ^may 
indissoluble  chain  until  time  is  no  more, 
the  honor  to  remain, 


ROSTER  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY,  NO.    I.   KNIGHTS  TeMPLAR. 
EUROPEAN  PILGRIMAGE,  JULY  12,  1 883. 

Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Eminent  Commander. 

Past  Eminent  Sir  Walter  A.  Stevens  as  Generalissimo. 

Sir  Henry  D.  Field  as  Captain  General. 

Sir  Rev.  Dr.  George  C.  Lorimer  as  Prelate. 

Sir  Albert  W.  Adcock  as  Senior  Warden. 

Sir  Bruno  H.  Goll  as  Junior  Warden. 

Sir  James  B.  Bradwell,  Treasurer. 

Sir  Charles  N.  Hammon  as  Recorder. 

Sir  Charles  E.  Woolley  as  Standard  Bearer, 

Sir  John  W.  Calkins  as  Sword  Bearer. 

Sir  William  A.  Thrall  as  Warder. 

MEDICAL  STAFF. 

Sir  Dr.  DeLaskie  Miller,  Medical  Director. 
Sir  Dr.  George  O.  Taylor,  Assistant  Medical  Director. 
Sir  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Bradley,  Assistant  Medical  Director. 
Sir  Dr.  T.  P.  Russell,  Assistant  Medical  Director. 
Sir  Dr.  A.  E.  Higbee,  Assistant  Medical  Director. 
Sir  Dr.  John  M.  Ristine,  Assistant  Medical  Director. 
Sir  Dr.  W.  M.  Stearns,  Assistant  Medical  Director. 

Sir  Knights,  I>'cluding  the  List  of  Brethren  and  Ladies 
WHO  WERE  Members  of  the  Party. 

LADIES  of  APOLLO. 


SIR  KNIGHTS  OF  APOLLO. 

Em.  Sir  Norman  T.  Gassette. 

Em.  Sir  Amos  Grannis. 

Em.  Sir  Dr.  Walter  A.  Stevens. 

Sir  Hon.  Wm.  Aldrich. 

Sir  Judge  James  B.  Bradwell. 

Sir  Charles  N.  Hammon. 


Mrs.  Norman  T.  Gassette. 
Mrs.  S.  A.  Tolman. 
Miss  Grace  Tolman. 


4.    Mrs.  J.  B.  Bradwell. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


83 


7. 

Sir  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Bradley. 

5. 

Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Bradley. 

8. 

Sir  Charles  E.  Woolley. 

6. 

Mrs.  C.  E.  Woolley. 

9- 

Sir  Dr.  G.  O.  Taylor. 

10. 

Sir  Enoch  B.  Stevens. 

7. 

Miss  Agnes  E.  Stevens. 

II. 

Sir  Fred.  Frieberg. 

12. 

Sir  John  W.  Calkins. 

8- 

Mrs.  John  W.  Calkins. 

13- 

Sir  Thomas  Cromlish. 

14. 

Sir  A.  H.  Reed. 

9. 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Reed. 

15- 

Sir  Bruno  H.  Goll. 

16. 

Sir  Henry  D.  Field. 

10. 

Miss  Eliza  W.  Bownan. 

17- 

Sir  C.  0.  Hanson. 

II. 

Mrs.  J.  Sanford  Lewis. 

18. 

Sir  Charles  A.  Burgess. 

19. 

Sir  M.  R.  Cobb. 

20. 

Sir  Wm.  A.  Thrall. 

21. 

Sir  E.  M.  Horton. 

22, 

Sir  A.  W.  Adcock. 

23- 

Sir  Dr.  DeLaskie  Miller. 

24. 

Sir  Rev.  Geo.  C.  Lorimer. 

^5- 

Sir  Geo.  E.  Hilton. 

Roster 
continued. 


OTHERS  FROM  CHICAGO. 

I. 

Sir  James  D.  Fanning. 

I. 

2. 

Sir  J.  J.  Flanders. 

3- 

Sir  John  A.  Davidson. 

4- 

Sir  Dr.  J.  S.  Bloomingston. 

2. 

5- 

Sir  Frank  E.  Willard. 

6. 

Com.  M.  C.  Isaacs 

3. 

7- 

Bro.  A.  Dexter. 

4- 

8. 

Bro.  Willett  Cornwall. 

5- 

LADIES. 


2.    Mrs.  J.  S.  Bloomingston. 


Mrs.  M.  C.  Isaacs. 


Miss  India  Wilson,  Englewood. 


THOSE 

[.  Em 


Sir 
Sir 
Sir 


5-  Sir 

6.  Sir 

7.  Sir 

8.  Rt. 

9.  Sir 

10.  Sir 

11.  Sir 


RESIDING  OUTSIDE  CHICAGO. 

.  Sir  K.  M.  Hutchison,  Oshkosh, 
Wis. 

M.  T.  Battis,  Oshkosh,  Wis. 
Oliver  Libbey,  Green  Bay,  Wis. 
Hon.  Philetus  Sawyer,  U.  S.  S,, 
Oshkosh,  Wis. 

J.  R.  Davis,  Sr.,  Neenah,  Wis. 
Dr.  T.  P.  Russell,  Oshkosh,  Wis. 
.  Rev.  Dr.  F.  R.  HafF,  Oshkosh, 
Em.  Sir  H.  G.  Thayer,  Ply- 
mouth, Ind. 

Hon.  Horace  Corbin,  Plymouth, 
Ind. 

Hon.  L.  Crane,  LaPorte,  Ind. 

W.  M.  Barrows,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 


LADIES. 


Miss  Isie  A.  Winn,  Plymouth, 
Ind. 


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Roster 
continued. 


14. 


15- 


16. 


17- 


19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 

23- 
24. 

25- 

26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30' 

31- 
32- 
S3' 
34. 
35- 
36. 
37. 
38. 

39- 
40, 

41. 

42. 


43. 
44. 

45- 
46. 


Sir  J.  H.  Thompson,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Em.  Sir  C.  H.  Benton,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Sir  Dr.  A.  E.  Higbee,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Bro.    Jacob    Barge,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Em.  Sir  H.  C.  McNeil,  Sioux  City, 
Iowa. 

Sir  Frank  H,  Peavey,  Sioux  City,  la. 
Sir  Frank  C.  Hormel,  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa. 

Sir  L.  P.  Dosh,  Davenport,  Iowa. 
Sir  Dr.  Jno .  M .  Ristine ,  Cedar  Rapids. 
Sir  John  B.  Beaver,  Cedar  Rapids. 
Sir  W.  H.  Talbot,  DeWitt,  Iowa. 
Sir  F.  A.  Simmons,  Cedar  Rapids. 
Sir  A.  W.  White,  Plattsmouth,  Neb. 
Sir  J  C.Cummings,  Plattsmouth  Neb. 
Sir  Bernhard  Hagelow,  Elgin,  111. 
Sir  G.  W.  Fish,  Elgin,  111. 
Sir  E.  R.  Elliott,  Litchfield,  111. 
Sir  Dr.  Wm.  Stearns,  Joliet,  111. 
Sir  C.  M.  Kimball,  Tonica,  111. 
Sir  Judge  J.  M.  Bailey,  Freeport,  111. 
Sir  S.  B.  Ferguson,  Danville,  111. 
Sir  J.  M.  Dresser,  Mason,  Mich. 
Bro.  Thad.  Densmore,  Mason,  Mich. 
Sir  Gustavus  Stone,  Beloit,  Wis, 
Sir  Walter  J.  Heyser,  Jackson,  Mich. 
Sir  C.  J.  Piper,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Sir  Dr.   H.  C.  Morrison,  Kansas 

City,  Mo. 
Sir  Ira  D.  Buck,  Plymouth,  Ind. 
Sir  A.  T.  Henry,  Boulder,  Colo. 
Sir  A.  J.  Mackey,  Boulder,  Colo. 
Sir  W.    Harlan   Cord,  Flemings- 
burgh,  Ky. 
Sir  Daniel  H.  Buck,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  7 
Sir  J.  C.  Bergstresser,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Sir  C.  F.  Beatty,  New  York.  8 
Comp.   D.   L.  McKay,  Chippewa 
Falls,  Wis. 

There  were  fourteen  friends  of  the  Sir  Kni 


Miss  Jennie  A.  Lynch,  Minne- 
apolis, Minn. 

Miss  Emma  Barge,  Minneap- 
olis, Minn. 

Miss  Louisa  Barge,  Minneap- 
olis, Minn. 


5.    Mrs.W.  H.  Talbot,  DeWitt,  la. 


6.    Mrs.  J.  M.  Dresser,  Mason,  Mich. 


Mrs.  D.  H.  Buck,  Philadelphia. 
.    Mrs.  C.  F.  Beatty,  New  York. 

ghts  besides. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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CHAPTER  XII. 

A.  D.  1883. — CONTINUED. 

On  the  i2th  day  of  July,  A.  D.  1883,  all  preliminary  arrangements  having  The 
been  perfected,  the  following  order  was  issued  from  the  East  of  Apollo  Com  ^^P^'"''^^*- 
mandery,  viz : 

AXTKNXXON,  SIK  KnIGHTS  !  ""'"'^  COMMANOHHV,  No.  X,  KnIOHTS  TKMPr.AR. 

You  are  hereby  notified  to  rendezvous  at  the  Asylum,  No.  76  Monroe  street,  Thursdav 
afternoon  July  x.th.x883,  at  5:30  o'clock,  for  the  purpose  of  escorting  the  Pilgrim  of  Apolb 
"111-:":^^^^^^  SirKnightsofotherCommandeLarjir; 

By  order  of  the  Eminent  Commander, 

Samuel  M.  Henderson,  Recorder. 

In  compliance  with  the  above  request  the  members  of  Apollo  who  intended  to 
remam  at  home,  and  other  Commanderies  assembled  in  large  numbers  to  assist 
m  escortmg  Apollo  Commandery  to  its  train.  The  lines  were  formed  on 
Monroe  street,  and  just  before  the  order  was  given  to  march,  it  seemed,  from 

Irti,  rv  h  .  '""""^     P'"''  ^"^^  -  "'^  Heaven's 

arttllery  had  opened,  as  a  salute  to  the  Commandery,  and  many  reasoned 
that  th.s  was  an  omen  of  good  will  on  the  part  of  the  Omnipotent  One  who 
ruleth  and  governeth  all  things. 

The  lines  having  been  formed,  the  Commandery,  under  escort  of  Oriental  March  to 
Consistory  S.-.  P.-  R...  S.-.,  of  Chicago,  marched  to  the  depot.    A  vast  con- 
course  of  people  had  gathered  there,  and  when  the  column  arrived  the  Sir 

Jvnights  were  warmly  welcomed. 

The  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  who  did  not  go  on  the  pilgrimage  presented  their 
Emment  Commander  w,lh  a  magnificent  floral  memento  as  a  farewell  offering  A  floral 
The  Consistory  saluted  the  Commandery  as  it  filed  past  and  then  a  general  shak- 
ing  of  hands  occurred  and  adieus  were  spoken  which  were  heartfelt,  and  the 

Inev  and""h"  ^""^'^'^'^ ^--^  in  wishing  the  Pilgrims  a  pleasant 

journey  and  a  happy  return  to  their  homes. 

_  The  Commandery  then  moved  into  the  depot,  bade  good-bye  to  those  assem-  Good  bye. 
bled  there  and  entered  the  cars.    Expressions  of  friendship  were  uttered 

left  bihtr;r   ,     .  '^^P-"»S  Pilgrims  and  the  friends  they 

leit  behind  them  found  vent  in  rousing  cheers. 


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The  start. 


The  cars. 


Engineers  in 
uniform. 


Escort  of 
honor. 


An  ovation. 


Arrive  at 
New  York 


As  the  train  moved  out  of  the  depot  the  band  struck  up  "  Auld  Lang 
Syne;"  and  encouraged  by  the  music  of  the  band,  the  cheers  of  those  assem- 
bled, the  waving  of  handkerchiefs,  etc.,  Apollo  Commandery  started  on  its 
pilgrimage. 

The  train  which  bore  the  Commandery  was  made  up  of  the  very  finest  and 
best  cars  of  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad,  all  elaborately  decorated  with 
appropriate  colors  and  inscriptions.  Every  arrangement  was  perfect  and 
the  officials  of  the  various  railways  are  entitled  to  special  thanks  for  their 
efforts  in  behalf  of  Apollo  No.  i.  The  engineers,  conductors  and  other  train 
men  in  many  cases  being  Templars  and  in  some  cases  being  in  full  Templar 
uniform. 

The  following  Sir  Knights  accompanied  the  party  as  far  as  New  York  and 
formed  an  Escort  of  Honor  : 


Sir  David  R.  Crego, 
Sir  Charles  O.  Hall, 
Sir  Peter  Johnson, 
Sir  George  W.  Hubbard, 
Sir  Henry  F.  Comstock, 
Sir  W.  J.  Malley, 
Sir  James  G.  Miller, 
Sir  John  M,  Hubbard, 
Sir  Charles  C.  PhiUips, 
Sir  Frank  M.  Wood, 
Sir  A.  F.  West, 
Sir  Henry  H.  Hobbs, 
Sir  Charles  A.  Schmidt, 
Sir  M.  N.  Fuller, 
Sir  J.  W.  Getman, 
Sir  George  Montague, 
Sir  George  W.  Muir. 


Sir  John  E.  Norton, 
Sir  Charles  H.  Ferguson, 
Sir  J.  W.  Stephens, 
Sir  Sanford  Rankin, 
Sir  B.  B.  Bullwinkle, 
Sir  Frank  E.  Land, 
Sir  W.  H.  Loud, 
Sir  Charles  M  Smith, 
Sir  Ed.  M.  Hale, 
Sir  C.  S.  Squires, 
Sir  Thomas  H.  Currier, 
Sir  L.  W.  Campbell, 
Sir  Archie  McClellan, 
Sir  A.  W.  Osterman, 
Sir  Henry  E.  Metzger, 
Sir  George  H.  Kessler. 


The  trip  to  New  York  was  a  perfect  ovation  in  every  respect,  and  the  recep- 
tion there  by  Palestine  Commandery  No.  i8.  Knights  Templar,  could  not  be 
surpassed. 

Arriving  in  New  York  the  Commandery  were  met  by  a  delegation  of  Sir 
Knights  from  that  Command  and  were  welcomed  in  a  truly  Knightly  manner. 
Several  hours  were  passed  in  making  the  acquaintance  of  our  Fraters  and  then 
the  order  came  to  fall  in.  The  lines  having  been  formed,  Palestine  Command- 
ery, No.  i8.  Knights  Templar,  in  full  uniform  and  numbering  over  one  hun- 
dred swords,  marched  past  and  were  received  with  Knightly  honors,  after 
which,  acting  as  escort  to  and  having  been  joined  by  Apollo  Commandery,  tlie 


Escort  of  WHH-ii,  a>-Liiig  «.c  v,ov.v^^t   ^  J   ^  J. 

Palestine        column  marched  through  the  streets  of  New  York  to  the  steamship  City  of 

Commandery.  _  ^  _  ^  ,      ^  ^   „,v.^ 

Rome. 


lil£iiV,i.v-v*    y.  ^    - 

The  occasion  is  one  which  will  never  be  forgotten  by  those  who  were 
permitted  to  participate  in  its  festivities,  and  the  friendships  formed  will 
continue,  and  the  courtesies  extended  will  not  be  forgotten  by  Apollo 
Commandery. 


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87 


Arriving  at  the  steamship  City  of  Rome,  Apollo  Commandery  marched  on 
board  and  were  assigned  their  quarters. 


S.  S.  City 
of  Rome. 


The  floral  offerings  presented  by  the  friends  to  the  Pilgrims  were  numerous  The  steamer 
and  elegant.    Among  them  was  one  of  the  City  of  Rome  presented  by  the  cabin  a  floral 
escort  from  Chicago,  and  also  a  stand  of  flowers  presented  to  Mrs.  Cassette  by  Sir 
Frank  B.  Hine,  of  Oriental  Commandery,  No.  12,  Knights  Templar,  of  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  resident  then,  and  now  of  N.  Y.    In  fact  the  cabin  of  the  steamer 
was  a  floral  bower.    The  members  of  Palestine  accompanied  by  the  escort  from  Palestine 
Chicago  sailed  down  the  bay  and  awaited  the  passage  of  the  City  of  Rome  when 
the  flags  were  dipped,  salutes  fired  and  cheers  given  as  Apollo  Commandery 
passed  Sandy  Hook,  on  its  European  pilgrimage. 

The  following  was  the  roster  of  Palestine  Commandery:  Eminent  Sir  Commandery 
Eugene  S.  Eunson,  Commander;  Eminent  Sirs  Henry  V.  Myers,  George 
W.  Skellen,  Past  Commanders;  Sirs  J.  M  Lyman,  Generalissimo;  Frederick 
G.  Gedney,  Captain  General;  James  W.  Bowden,  Senior  Warden;  Wm.  H. 
Francis,  Junior  Warden;  Wm.  R.  Carr,  Treasurer;  Charles  S.  Champlin' 
Recorder;  Wm.  T.  Goundie,  Standard  Bearer;  Joseph  H.  Barker,  Sword  Bearer; 
Doctor  George  H.  Rich,  Surgeon;  John  H.  Clark,  Captain  of  the  Guard,  and 
Sirs  Stephen  D.  Affleck,  R.  R.  Appleton,  Ulysses  Baker,  Nathaniel  Ballard, 
Charles  Blake,  Robert  Bonynge,  StewarC  R.  Bradburn,  Horace  H.  Brockway' 
John  M.  Burt,  Joseph  H.  Cable,  Frederick  D.  Clapp,  Joshua  A.  Clarke' 
Edward  W.  Clarke,  Charles  P.  Cocks,  Andrew  F.  Dalzell,  A.  D'Orville' 
Joseph  B.  Eakens,  Alfred  C.  Fenn,  James  N.  Fuller,  W.  J.  Gage,  James  M.  Gano,' 
Wm.  H.  Gedney,  John  V.  B.  Green,  Clarence  C.  Howard,  J.  M.  W.  Jackson' 
Edward  A.  Johnson,  W.  R.  Johnson,  Jr.,  Charles  L.  Kohler,  Charles  E.  Lansing' 
Wallace  B.  Lane,  Robert  G,  Larason,  George  F.  Liwrie,  E.  M.  Levy,  John  b' 
Liddle,  W.  H.  Long,  Edward  P.  Lyman,  George  L.  Lyon,  E.  W.  Mascord 
Louis  F.  Mazzetti,  Charles  A.  Merritt,  Robert  Nicholls,  T.  H.  Patterson,  J  w' 
Reynolds,  James  A.  Rich,  George  8.  Seaman,  Albert  Terhune,  Theo.  h' 
Tilton,  T.  T.  Timayenis,  H.  K.  Van  Siclen,  H.  Vassell,  Wm.  Vosburgh  E  h' 
Warker,  J.  W.  Warth,  C.  Y.  Wemple,  John  H.  Wood,  John  H.  Woods,  H.  K 
Woodruff,  Thomas  H.  Harris,  George  L.  Baker,  Robert  Betty  and  P.  Harris 


sail  down 


the  bay. 


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Additional 
guests. 


The 

34th  degree 


Refreshments. 


The  additional  guests  of  Palestine  Commandery  on  this  memorable  day  and 
who  accompanied  them  and  the  Escort  from  Chicago,  down  the  bay  of  New 
York  on  the  steamer  J.  E.  Moore,  as  reported  by  the  New  York  papers  were  as 
follows  : 

Sir  Bulkley,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Connecticut;  Sir  M.  G.  Bulkley,  Mayor 
of  Hartford,  and  Sir  Jewett,  Private  Secretary  to  his  Honor;  C.  T.  Coughlin, 
Bay  State  Commandery,  of  Brocton,  Mass. ;  Eminent  Sirs  W.  G.  Fox,  of  York, 
No.  55;  Joseph  F.  Warring,  of  Ivanhoe,  No.  36;  C.  D.  Hayward,  Charles 
Hously,  and  Christopher  Johnson,  of  Morton,  No.  4;  Right  Eminent  Sir 
Jerome  B.  Borden,  Past  Grand  Commander,  and  Eminent  Sir  E.  W.  Price, 
Grand  Junior  Warden,  of  New  Jersey  ;  and  Sirs  John  Scott,  Joseph  D.  Costa, 
John  H.  Casey,  Anthony  Yeomans,  Theophilus  Pratt,  F.  E.  Day,  and  Lyman 
A.  Day,  of  Morton,  No.  4,  Sirs  James  McGee,  aide-de-camp  to  the  Grand  Com- 
mander of  New  York  in  the  California  pilgrimage,  and  Theodore  Reeves,  of 
Columbian,  No.  i ;  Sirs  Richard  Senior,  Henry  Hayn,  James  Fairbrother,  and 
J.  H.  Cornell,  of  De  Witt  Clinton,  No.  27,  which,  added  to  the  names  of  Sir 
George  H.  Rowe,  32°,  G.  W.  Southern,  32°. 

The  34th  degree  was  conferred  with  gieat  taste  and  remarkable  assiduity  by 
Sir  Joseph  H.  Cable  during  the  passage  down  the  bay  and  the  return  trip  to  Glen 
Island. 

He  had  charge  also  of  the  refreshment  counter  and  made  a  most  accept- 
able host,  and  well  deserves  honorable  mention  in  preserving  the  good  name 
and  fame  of  Palestine,  for  the  able  and  pleasing  management  of  this  im- 
portant branch  of  the  excursion.  The  poet  has  well  described  the  clever  artist 
in  the  following  lines: 

"  Good  morrow,  friend.    'Tis  of  good  cheer 
To  welcome  thee.    Wilt  thou?    Don't  fear, 
The  best  in  the  land  is  here  and  for  thee  and  thine. 
And  you  shall  enjoy  it  with  me  and  mine." 

We  would  be  recreant  to  our  better  judgement  and  fair  dealing  were  we  to 
omit  the  tendering  of  thanks  and  grateful  remember ances  to  Eminent  Sir  Eun- 
son.  Sir  J.  Martin  Lyman,  H.  H.  Brockway,  James  A.  Rich  and  others  of 
Palestine  Commandery  for  special  courtesies  extended  to  the  Chicago  Escort 
during  this  day  of  more  than  memorable  glory. 

During  the  absence  of  Eminent  Commander  Cassette  and  Apollo  Com- 
mandery in  Europe,  there  devolved  upon  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany,  Generalis- 
simo, and  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  at  home  very  many  hospita- 
ble and  arduous  duties. 

Although  both  Commandery  and  Eminent  Commander  were  in  Europe,  and 
J°''^^ospitality  ^efoj-g  Jts  departure  the  Commandery  having  requested  a  Dispensation  from 
the  Grand  Commander,  with  the  express  design  of  avoiding  and  omitting  the 
holding  of  Conclaves  after  July  3d,  until  September  i8th,  1883;  and  the  same 
having  been  received  and  the  Charter  of  the  Commandery  taken  from  the 
Asylum  and  deposited  for  safe  keeping;  it  was  yet  well  known  that  of  the 
nearly  Seven  Hundred  Members  of  the  Commandery  a  very  large  number 
were  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  had  a  reputation  for  hospitality  to  maintain. 


Thanks  and 
remem- 
brances. 


Duties  of  Sir 

Generalissimo 

Tittany. 


A  reputation 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


89 


A  contingency  had  arisen  which  had  not  been  thoug-ht  of  by  either  Com-  A 
mander,  Officers  or  Commandery,  in  the  hurry  of  preparation  for  the  European  ^°"^^"sency. 
Pilgrimage,  and  no  provision  had  been  made  for  extending  courtesies  to  Com- 
manderies  and  Sir  Knights  en-route  to  and  from  California. 

Sir  Knight  Generalissimo  H.  S.  Tiffany  was  equal  to  the  emergency.         Equal  to  it. 

Right  Eminent  Sir  Grand  Commander  Turner  having  given  Very  Eminent  ^ 
Sir  James  G.  Elwood  his  proxy  as  Grand  Commander,  to  act  as  such  during  dispensation, 
his  absence  from  the  Grand  Jurisdiction  of  Illinois,  he  issued  his  Dispensation 
to  the  Chicago  Sir  Knights  to  appear  upon  the  streets  equipped  "  as  Com- 
manderies  or  as  detachments,  conjointly  or  severally,     *     *     *      at  any 
time  until  September  loth."    Sir  Knight   Generalissimo  Tiffany  felt  authorized  Sir  Tiffany 
to  act  under  the  circumstances,  feelirg  sure  that  his  doings  and  expen-  mone"y'' 
diture  of  money  would  meet  the  approval  of  the  Commandery  at  the  first  Stated 
Conclave  after  its  return  from  Europe    So  certain  was  he  of  it  that  he  advanced 
personally  whatever  money  was  required. 

The  Officers  of  all  the  other  Commanderies  who  intended  to  remain  in  Chicago,  ^  committee 
Siloam  Commandery,  of  Oak  Park,  and  Sir  Knights  Generalissimo  Tiffany,  and 
Captain  General  Crego,  of  Apollo,  No.  i,  met  for  conference,  organized  a 
general  committee  who  should  have  in  charge  the  duties  in  hand,  and,  on  motion 
of  Right  Eminent  Sir  Henry  C.  Ranney,  elected  Sir  Knight  Generalissimo 
H.  S.  Tiffany,  Chairman. 

We  fail  to  have  ever  learned  that  he  did  not  earn  the  hearty  congratulations  ^^^^ 
of  his  Praters  of  the  Committee  by  the  masterly  manner  m  which  he  performed  Tiffany 
the  duties  they  assigned  him,  and  feel  confident  that  his  success  was  as  satisfac- 
tory to  others  as  it  was  to  Apollo  Commandery.    The  following  announcements 
were  made  in  the  daily  papers : 

To  THE  Knights  Templar  op  Chicago  :  Announce- 

The  committee  composed  of  the  officers  of  the  several  city  Commanderies,  having  in  charge  the  ^^^'s- 
preliminary  arrangements  for  the  coming  week,  desire  to  announce  the  following  programme  • 

Sunday,  Auo-ustjik,i88s.-Th,  Councils  of  all  city  Commanderies  are  requested  to  meet  at 
the  Chicago  &  Atlantic  Depot  (Polk  and  Fourth  Avenue),  at  3:30  o'clock  p.  M..-citizen's  dress- 
for  the  purpose  of  receiving  Mary  Commandery,  of  Philadelphia,  and  escorting  them  to  the  Grand 
y  acihc  Hotel.  At  7:30  o'clock  p.  m.,  the  detachments  from  the  various  Commanderies  are  re- 
quested to  rendezvous  in  citizen's  dress  at  the  Grand  Pacific  and  escort  our  Fraters  to  their  train, 
which  leaves  over  the  Chicago  &  Alton  at  9  o'clock  p.  m. 

M,^^day,  August  6th,  /55j.-The  officers  and  members  of  the  several  Commanderies  are  re- 
quested to  meet  at  the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel  at  2:30  o'clock  p.  m.  to  interchange  Fraternal  and 
Knightly  greetings  with  the  M.  E.,  the  Grand  Master,  and  the  Sir  Knights  of  Boston  Com- 
mandery who  accompany  him.  The  detachments  from  the  various  Commanderies  will  ren- 
dezvous at  the  Grand  Pacific  at  3  o'clock  p.  m.  for  the  purpose  of  escorting  our  fraters  to  their  train, 
which  leaves  over  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  at  4  o'clock  p  m 

Thursday  August  gih,  /55j,-The  Councils  of  all  the  city  Commanderies.  in  citizen's  dress, 
are  requested  to  meet  at  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad  Depot,  Lake  Street,  at  7:30  a.  m  ,  for  the 
purpose  of  receiving  and  escorting  to  the  Tremont  House  the  Grand  Commanderies  of  New  York 
and  Michigan  and  the  Sir  Knights  who  accompany  them.  The  several  city  Commanderies,  either 
by  Detachments  or  as  Commanderies,  are  requested  to  rendezvous  at  the  hotel,  fully  equipped, 
at  11:30  A.  M  ,  for  the  purpose  of  escorting  our  Fraters  to  their  train,  which  leaves  on  the  Chicago, 
iJurlington  &  Qumcy  at  i  o'clock  p.  m. 

By  Order  of  the  Committee, 

Henry  S.  Tiffany,  Chairman. 


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Attention,       Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar. 

Apollo!  Attention,  Sir  Knights! 

The  n^embers  of  this  Commandery  who  are  in  the  city  are  requested  to  rendezvous  in  the 
Armory,  No.  76  Monroestreet,  Thursday,  August  9th,  1883,  at  11  o'clock  A.  M.,  fully  equipped,  for 
the  purpose  of  uniting  with  the  other  Commanderies  of  Chicago  in  escorting  from  the  hotel  to  the 
train  our  Pilgrim  Fraters  from  the  Grand  Jurisdictions  of  New  York  and  Michigan,  who  are 
en  route  to  the  Triennial  Conclave  at  San  Francisco.  The  Templar  Headquarters  will  be  in  the 
club-room  of  the  Tremont  House,  and  all  the  members  of  this  Commandery  who  are  in  the  city, 
as  well  as  the  members  of  all  the  other  Chicago  Commanderies,  are  invited  and  requested  to  con- 
sider themselves  on  the  Reception  Committee  and  assist  in  entertaining  these  Fraters  from  other 
jurisdictions,  who  will  be  the  guests-of  all  the  Chicago  Commanderies.  Ihe  R.  E.  Grand  Com- 
mander has  issued      Special  Dispensation  for  this  purpose. 

By  Order  of  the  Generalissimo, 

S.  M.  Henderson,  Recorder. 

Bon  voyage.      In  accordance  therewith,  August  5th,  Mary  Commandery  was  duly  received, 

entertained  and  wished  "bon  voyage." 
Grand  Appropriate  hospitalities  were  duly  tendered  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master 

Master  j)^^^  the  Sir  Knights  from  Massachusetts;  and  the  following  quoted  article 
from  one  of  the  Chicago  papers  indicates,  to  a  certain  degree,  what  labor  was 
accomplished  on  August  9th  : 
New  York  ^  ^  ^^^iber  of  members  of  the  five  Chicago  Commanderies  of  Knights  Templar  and 
rolm.^r""  Siloam  Commandery  of  Oak  Park  assembled  this  morning  at  the  Tremont  House  to  meet  the 
erTs  eTai.,  Sir  Knights  from  the  Grand  Commanderies  of  New  York,  Michigan  and  Ohio  who  are  on 
inet.  .heir  way  to  San  Francisco  to  attend  the  Triennial  Conclave.    The  Michigan  Commanderies 

were  met  last  evening  at  Niles.  Michigan,  by  a  delegation  of  members  from  me  city  Com- 
manderies, consisting  of  Comptroller  Gurney,  James  Hitchcock,  H  S.  Tiffany  Superintendent 
Ben  B.  BuUwinkle,  Tom  Currier,  H.  A.  Wheeler,  Stephen  Laskey,  Charles  Hall,  C  C.  Hilton 
O.W.  Ruggles,  D.  R.  Crego,  and  J.  H.  Barker,  and  accompanied  by  them  to  the  Tremont 
House  to-day. 

The  Michigan  Commanderies  arrived  over  the  Michigan  Central  Road,  the  Ohio  Commanderies 
over  the  Lake  Shore  road,  and  the  New  York  Commanderies  over  the  Grand  Trunk  road  Each 
delegation  expressed  themselves  highly  pleased  with  the  courtesies  received  at  the  hands  of 
the  several  roads. 

The  Michigan  delegation,  representing  about  ten  Commanderies  is  as  follows^:  Right  Eminent 
S  "K'nL\ts  Sir  Grand  Commander  Jesse  E.  Saxton,  and  wife  ;  Past  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  G^  W. 
Sir  Kn.ghts.  ^^^^^.^^^  Past  Eminent  Commander  John  P.  Fisk,  and  wife  ;   Past  Eminent  Com- 

mander T.  E.  Armstrong,  Captain  General  F.W.Noble,  and  daughter ;  Senior  Warden  L.B. 
Dixon,  and  wife  ;  H.  H.  Jackson  and  wife  ;  E.  H.  Morton  and  wife,  John  Baydel  and  w>fe,  W.  O. 
Martin,  G.  L.Adams,  E.  R.  Harris,  Charles  H.  Chape,  W.E.  Fox,  Robert  Chape,  Charles  P. 
Cox,  J  H.  Barker,  H.B.Roney  and  sister,  C.  B.  Knapp,  William  Williamson  Scott  Par^ 
ridg^,  M.H.  Stanford,  F.  J.  Buckhart,  L  R.  Hitchcock,  William  Johnston,  G.  J.  Parker  Tern p^ 
Emery,  wife  and  sister  ;  C .  T.  ConkUn,  wife,  mother  and  sister  ;  C.  P.  P.  Barnus  W.  G  Hend- 
erson  iohnSouthworth,  J.  B.  Tomlinson,  G.  E.  Paulter,  F.  Hotop  and  wife,  W.  W.  Olin  and 
wife  W.  L.  Lawrence,  wife,  son  and  niece  ;  E.  W.  Schock,  J.  B.  Hyatt,  wife  and  niece  ;  W.  L. 
Wri;ht  and  wife;  H.  Woodward,  wife  and  sister;  C.  Judd  -d  -ife,  F.  George,  W.Ma^^^^ 
Reuben  H.  Warriner,  J.  H.  Morrell  and  wife,  R.  E.  Richard  and  wife,  P.  Wachter,  wife,  mother 
and  sister. 

The  Toledo  delegation  is  as  follows  :  G.  B.  Skeels  and  wif.,  F.  Briggs  and  sister,  L  Burdick, 
SifKnightS  Maulton  Houck,  A.  T.  Montgomery,  Moses  S.  Sargent,  J.  L.  Kinman  Dan.el  Atwater,  H  .  A. 
Sir  Knights.  z.  t.  Bartzly,  M.  C.  Palmer,  H.  M.  Wisler,  A.  Barley,  W.  R.  Clark  and  wife,  and 

Mrs.  F.B.Gott,  Mrs.  Riley,  B.  Hobbs,  Mrs.  Emerson  Wright,  A.  B.  Thompson  and  wife,  and 

Mrs.  L.  A.  Hankinson,  son  and  daughter. 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR, 


91 


The  New  York  delegation,  representing  twelve  different  Commanderies,  of  New  York  and  New  York 
Connecticut,  consists  of  the  following  :  Eminent  Sir  Knight  P.  L.  Hinman,  St.  Omer's  Com-  Sir  Knights, 
mandery,  of  Elmira,  N.  Y.;  Grand  Commander  John  S.  Bartlett,  Past  Grand  Commander,  G.  W. 
Walgrave,  Grand  Commander  A.  A.Crosby,  Past  Eminent  Commander  John  D.  Williams,  Past 
Eminent  Commander  G.  VanVleet,  Past  Grand  Commander  N.  G.  Welton,  H.  M.  Bishop,  E.  F. 
Barnes,  John  Scott,  P.  H.  Mellay,  J.  A.  Farrington,  J.  H.  Mcllvey,  T.  W.  Thompson,  J.  Theirs, 
Dr.  J.  Comfort,  Master  Comfort,  R.  H.  Smith,  Master  Ed  Smith,  James  Magie,  Master  J.  E. 
Magie,  E.  M.  Chapin,  W.  W.  Weaver,  H.  H.  Abbey,  E.  T.  Jacobus,  J.  McDowell,  S.  S.  Truax, 
F.  R.  Krepp,  H.  Vogt,  D.  Barres,  J.  T.  Shephard,  A.  Robertson,  P.  L.  Voorhees,  J.  Voorhees, 
C.  Voorhees,  G.  Rider,  Willard  Hagen,  W.  Rogers,  A.  J.  Hall,  W.  B.  Henry,  J.  Dake  ,  J.  J.  Duff^ 
Dr.  W.  H.  Richardson,  J.  W.  Hubbard.  L.  W.  Kennedy,  L.  VanBenchsten,  W,  H.  Cook  and  a 
large  number  of  ladies. 

Mayor  Harrison,  in  a  short,  characteristic  speech,  extended  the  hospitalities  of  the  city  to  the  Mayor 
Knights  assembled  in  the  club  room  of  the  hotel,  and  hoped  that  they  would  be  able  to  reverse  Harrison, 
the  usual  order  of  things  and  gain  much  light  from  a  pilgrimage  to  the  west  instead  of  the  east. 
When  they  returned  to  Chicago  he  hoped  they  would  "  take  in  "  the  city  and  its  river,  and  not 
be  "  taken  in  "  by  its  bad  men. 

The  Sir  Knights  left  the  city  by  the  Burlington  route  for  Denver  at  12:30  o'clock,  being  escorted 
by  the  local  Commanderies  from  the  Tremont  house  in  an  appropriate  manner. 

The  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  did  a  knightly  and  courteous  act  A  knightly 
also  on  this  day,  which  was  encouraged,  if  not  wholly  instigated  by  Sir  General- 
issimo  Tiffany,  and  one  which  is  only  another  exemplification  of  their  generous 
courtesy  and  his  knightly  characteristics. 

St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  35,  left  Chicago  for  California  over  the  ^^^^^^ 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  on  the  loth  day  of  August,  and  were  St.  Bernard, 
ostensibly  escorted  by  Oriental  Consistory,  32°,  and  Chevalier  Bayard  Com- 
mandery, No.  52,  Knights  Templar  only. 

The  charter  members  of  the  last  Body  named  were  about  evenly  divided 
between  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  and  St.  Bernard  Commanderies.    The  Sir 
Knights  of  Apollo  did  not  tender  a  detachment  as  an  escort  to  St.  Bernard  chevalier 
Commandery,  although  the  esteem  in  which  that  command  is  held  by  Apollo 
Commandery,  would  have  naturally  caused  such  a  course  to  be  pursued,  but 
instead,  with  the  knightly  spirit  which  should  ever  prevail,— mindful  that  their  ^^^""""^ 
Fraters,  once  of  Apollo  Commandery,  were  enrolled  under  a  new  Beauseant— 
the  Officers  and  Sir  Knights  fell  in,  under  a  strange  Beauseant ;  swelled  the  Commandery 
ranks  of  Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery,  and  thereby  renewed  that  fraternal 
bond  which  should  never  be  broken,  however  diversified  the  interests  of  the 
once-Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  may  become,  when  upholding  an- 
other Commandery,  because  whatever  the  name  or  number  borne,  its  Beauseant 
is  the  emblem  of  Templarism,  whose  broad  folds  should  cover  a  united  frater-  Templar 
nity.    It  was  an  appropriate  act ;  and  one  which  will  not  soon  be  forgotten  by 
Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery  No.  52;  and  the  self  abnegation  was  thoroughly  Beauseant. 
understood  and  appreciated  by  chivalrous  St.  Bernard  No.  35.    It  did  not  lessen 
the  escort  or  eclat  with  which  the  latter  command  left  Chicago,  and  evinced  a 
fraternity  which  was  exalted  above  petty  ambitions  or  rivalries.    A  brief  respite 
followed  and  then  the  following  announcement  appeared  : 

The  Knights  Templar  of  Chicago, 

TT  ^  Another  an- 

Headquarters  of  Committee.  nouncement. 

The  Sir  Knights  of  the  several  Chicago  Commanderies  are  requested  to  rendezvous,  fully 

equipped,  at  their  respective  asylums,  at  2:20  o'clock  sharp,  and  march  to  76  Monroe  street,  where 


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thelines  will  be  formed  at  3:30  o'clock  Friday,  August  31,  1883,  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  and 
escorting  our  Praters  of  St  Bernard  Commandei-y,  No.  35,  Knights  Templar,  on  their  return  home 
from  their  pilgrimage  to  San  Francisco.  Every  Sir  Knight  who  can  possibly  leave  his  business  is 
earnestly  requested  to  form  one  of  the  Chicago  battalion  on  that  day.  Notice  of  the  reception  of 
the  Right  Eminent  the  Grand  Commander  will  be  given  hereafter.  The  train  will  arrive  at  4:30 
o'clock— Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad. 

By  request  of  the  Committee, 

H.  S.  Tiffany,  Chairman. 

Attention!       Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar, 

Attention,  Sir  Knights! 
The  members  who  are  in  the  city  are  requested  to  rendezvous  at  the  Asylum,  Friday,  August 
31,  1883,  at  3:30  o'clock,  for  the  purpose  of  uniting  with  the  members  of  the  other  city  Command- 
eries  and  forming  the  "  Chicago  Battalion  "  who  will  receive  and  escort  St.  Bernard  Commandery, 
No.  35,  Knights  Templar,  from  the  depot  to  their  asylum.  Let  all  Sir  Knights  '■  fall  in  "  and  wel- 
come our  fraters  home  agam.     By  order  of  the  Generalissimo, 

Samuel  M.  Henderson,  Recorder. 


Sir  Knights 
of  Apollo 
rendezvous. 


Other  acts. 


Escort  to 

Pennsylvania 

and 

Delaware 
Sir  Knights. 


St.  Bernard 

arrives 

home. 


A  pretty 
feature. 


Pursuant  to  the  request,  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  rendez- 
voused as  wished  for,  fell  in  to  the  left  of  Chicago  Commandery  No.  19, 
waived  the  rank  of  the  Commandery  to  which  they  belonged,  and  vied  with  all 
in  magnanimity  in  their  endeavor  to  do  honor  to  St.  Bernard  No.  35  upon  its 
arrival  home. 

Other  acts  of  Sir  Knight  Generalissimo  Tiffany  and  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo 
Commandery  are  best  discovered  by  making  a  quotation  from  a  Chicago  news- 
paper of  September  ist,  1883;  which  referred  to  the  Pennsylvania  Sir  Knights 
from  Philadelphia  and  elsewhere  from  that  State,  and  St.  Johns  Commandery 
of  Wilmington,  Delaware. 

At  four  o'clock  yesterday  afternoon  they  formed  in  line  at  the  Grand  Pacific,  and  awaited  the 
arrival  of  the  escort  which  was  to  take  them  to  the  Union  Depot,  and  at  the  same  time  receive 
the  returning  St.  Bernard  pilgrims. 

The  column  approached  the  hotel  from  Jackson  street.  A  platoon  of  police  led  the  way,  fol- 
lowed by  the  Montjoie  Commandery  of  mounted  Knights  Templar,  thirty  strong.  The  Light 
Guard  Band  headed  the  Chicago  Commandery,  fifty  strong,  and  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Com- 
mander^S  fifty  in  number.  The  Second  Regiment  (Illinois  National  Guards)  Band  headed  the 
Siloam  Commandery,  sixty  members,  and  the  San  Francisco  Club  of  Philadelphia  Knights, 
seventy-six  in  number,  had  the  left  of  the  column. 

The  procession  marched  west  on  Adams  street  to  the  Union  depot,  and  the  Philadelphians  took 
their  places  in  the  train,  composed  of  three  Pullman  sleepers  and  a  baggage  car,  in  which  were 
goodly  supplies  of  fancy  groceries  for  the  trip  home. 

The  St.  Johns  Commandery,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware,  had  their  car,  the  Jerome  Marble,  of 
the  Worcester  Excursion  Line,  attached  to  the  Philadelphia  train. 

******* 

As  the  train  bearing  the  Eastern  pilgrims  pulled  out  of  the  depot,  amid  the  cheers  of  the 
escorting  knights,  the  train  with  the  St  Bernard  pilgrims  was  seen  approaching.    *  *  * 

The  St.  Bernard  knights  disembarked,       *  *  *  *       the  order  to  "  fall  in  "  was 

given,  and  the  procession  formed  once  more,  this  time  with  the  St.  Bernard  Knights  in  place  of 
the  Philadelphia  Templars.  The  line  of  march  was  east  on  Adams  street  to  Franklin,  to  Monroe 
street,  and  to  State  street,  thence  to  the  Asylum  of  the  St.  Bernard  Commandery  on  the  north 
side. 

A  pretty  feature  of  this  parade  was  the  intertwining  of  the  Beauseants  of  all 
the  Coramanderies,  evincing  thereby  an  idea  of  unity  and  fraternization  which 
we  trust  will  ever  be  a  realization  rather  than  a  myth. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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DeMolay  Commandery,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  arrived  over  the  Chicago,  DeMolay,  of 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad,  September  2d,  at  4  o'clock  p.  m.  A  commit- 
tee  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery,  consisting  of  Sirs  L.  W.  Camp- 
bell, Daniel  M.  Boynton,  Charles  O.  Hall,  John  E.  Norton,  James  G.  Everest, 
together  vi^ith  Sir  Knights  of  other  commands,  were  selected  to  meet  them  at 
Omaha. 

When  DeMolay  Commandery  arrived  at  the  depot  at  Chicago,  they  were  ^ 
met  by  large  committees,  representing  every  Chicago  Commandery,  Siloam  Com-  committee, 
mandery  of  Oak  Park,  and  Oriental  Consistory  S.-.P.-.R.-.S.-.  32°  of  Chicago, 
who  escorted  them  to  the  Tremont  House.  The  Committee  from  Apollo  was 
as  follows  :  Sir  Generalissimo  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany,  Sir  Captain  General  David 
Ray  Crego,  and  Sirs  L.  D.  Pollard,  R.  M.  Johnson,  John  G  Sprague,  H.  F. 
Comstock,  Frank  Hurlburd,  George  W.  Lawrence,  Alfred  Russell,  Henry  D. 
Field,  H.  A.  Wheeler,  F.  A.  Hayden,  J.  M.  Whitehead,  John  E.  Norton,  C.  O. 
Hall,  J,  G.  Everest,  James  G.  Miller,  Charles  M.  Smith  and  Stephen  Laskey. 

On  the  day  they  arrived,  DeMolay  Commandery,  as  the  guests  of  the  Chicago  Carriage 
Sir  Knights,  were  taken  in  carriages  over  the  Lake  Shore  Drive  to  Lincoln 
Park,  and  subsequently  over  the  Grand  and  other  boulevards  through  the  South 
Parks,  returning  to  the  hotel  about  8  o'clock. 

At  7:30  o'clock  A.  M.,  Tuesday,  September  3d,  the  Atlantic  Club  of  Balti-  Other 
more,  Maryland,  composed  of  Maryland  and  DeMolay  Commanderies,  and  Co-  wekomed! 
lumbia  Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T.,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  were  welcomed. 

The  programme  arranged  for  September  3d  was  in  honor  of  the  arrival  home  Right  Em. 
of  the  deservedly  esteemed  and  distinguished  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  Commander 
of  Illinois,  Sir  Henry  Turner  and  was  to  have  been  as  follows :  Turner. 

"  The  Knights  Templar  of  Chicago,  composing  Apollo,  Chicago,  St.  Bernard,  Chevalier  Bayard 
Montjoie,  and  Siloam  Commanderies,  will  rendezvous  at  their  respective  Asylums  at  12:30  o'clock 
and  march  to  76  Monroe  street,  where  they  will  be  formed  into  one  battalion  under  the  command 
of  Very  Eminent  Sir  J.  G.  Elwood,  Acting  Grand  Commander,  and  march  to  the  Tremont  House, 
where  they  will  be  joined  by  De  Molay  Commandery  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  the  Atlantic 
Club  of  Maryland,  composed  of  all  the  Maryland  Commanderies  of  Knights  Templar,  and  from 
there  to  the  Burlington  depot,  where  they  will  receive  Right  Eminent  Sir  Henry  Turner,  Grand 
Commander  of  Knights  Templar  of  Illinois,  on  his  return  from  San  Francisco.  The  line  of  march 
returning  from  the  depot  will  be  Adams  to  Franklin,  to  Monroe,  to  La  Salle,  to  Washington,  to 
Dearborn,  where  headquarters  have  been  established.  From  there  he  will  be  escorted  by  a  dele- 
gation from  each  Commandery  to  his  own  home  at  No.  418  Belden  avenue." 

"  The  programme  of  the  Knights  Templar  as  contemplated  was  declared  off  at  about  noon.    A  The 
telegram  arrived  from  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  Turner,  which  should  have  beSa  received  programme 
Saturday,  informing  the  gathering  hosts  in  this  city  that  he  was  delayed  on  account  of  a  wash-out  on  ^uh^^*^*^^^ 
the  Denvet  and  Rio  Grande  Road,  about  thirty-five  miles  southwest  from  Denver,  but  which  was 
not  delivered  until  noon  yesterday.    The  Sir  Knights  of  Chicago  had  taken  time  by  the  forelock 
and  sent  to  Mr.  Turner's  home  in  the  morning  a  beautiful  floral  tribute  of  "  Welcome  Home," 
made  up  of  the  most  costly  flowers  that  could  be  secured. 

The  non-arrival  of  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander,  although  a  great  disappointment,  did  jjis 
not  prevent  public  demonstrations  in  honor  of  the  Louisville  and  Maryland  Commanderies  on  their  non-arrival, 
way  home.       *       *      *      At  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  the  Sir  Knights  of  Chicago  assembled 
at  No.  76  Monroe  street,  and  after  completing  preliminary  arrangements,  formed  into  line  and 
marched  to  the  Palmer  House,  where  the  representatives  of  the  Maryland  Commanderies  were  in 
waiting,  who  took  their  place  in  the  column,  when  all  proceeded  to  the  Tremont  House,  where  the 


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Drill  of 
DeMolay. 


Their 
escort 


Homeward 
bound. 


Atlantic 
Club. 


DeMolays     *     *     *     were  gathered  to  be  escorted  to  the  White  Stocking  Base  Ball  Park  on 
the  lake  front  to  participate  in  an  exhibition  drill.    Forming  in  line,  and  accompanied  by  Nevans 
and  the  Second  Regiment  bands,  the  procession,  in  the  following  order,  marched  to  the  park  : 
A  Squad  of  City  Police. 
Nevans'  Band. 
Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Comraandery,  No.  i. 
Joliet  Commandery,  No.  4. 
Chicago  Commandery,  No.  19. 
St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  35. 
Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery,  No,  52. 
Montjoie  Commandery,  No.  53. 
Siloam  Commandery,  No.  54. 
De  Molay  Commandery. 
The  Atlantic  Club  of  Maryland,  District  of  Columbia,  Pennsylvania,  West  Virginia,  Connecticut 

and  New  Jersey. 

At  8-45  in  the  evening  the  De  Molays  were  escorted  to  the  Union  Depot  *  _  *  *  by  the 
Sir  Knights  of  Chicago,  where  a  Pullman  sleeper,  attache!  to  the  9 130  evening  tram  of  the  Chicago, 
St  Louis  and  Indianapolis  was  waiting.  Breaking  ranks  there  a  general  good  time  was  indulged  in. 
Laughter,  conversation,  and  music  re-echoed  throughout  the  depot  until  "  all  aboard  was  an- 
nounced when  the  train  pulled  out  amid  shouts,  cheers,  and  good-byes  from  the  immense  crowds 
that  had  gathered,  Lyon  &  Healy's  band  playing  "  Auld  Lang  Syne."      ^  * 

None  tlie  less  noted  Sir  Knights  are  the  150  of  the  great  Atlantic  Club,  who  left  Chicago 
Wednesday  morning,  September  4th,  at  9:30,  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Road  for  the  East  and 
Southeast  The  Adantic  Club  is  composed  of  delegates  from  Maryland,  Washington,  Pennsylva- 
nia West  Virginia,  Connecticut,  and  New  Jersey  Commanderies,  Columbia  Commandery,  No.  2, 
of  which  Sir  Knight  A.  T,  Longley  is  the  Eminent  Commander,  is  the  one  of  which  Gen- 
eral Garfield  was  an  honored  member.  *  *  *  *  They  returned  home  with  many 
praises  for  the  royal  hospitality  bestowed  by  their  Chicago  brethren. 

And  thus  was  brought  to  a  conclusion  the  happily  inaugurated  and  generously 
consummated  duties  of  Sir  Generalissimo  Tiffany  and  his  Frater  Sir  Knights  of 
Apollo  Commandery  and  Chicago. 

We  esteem  it  fitting  and  proper  that  the  events  chronicled  above  relative  to 
the  work  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  during  the  absence  of  the  Commander 
should  have  a  place  in  this  history  of  Apollo  Commandery,  exemplifymg  as 
they  do  that  chivalrous  rivalry  for  the  benefit  of  others  which  does  so  much 
honor  to  true  Templarism. 


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CHAPTER  XII. 


rainbow. 


A.  D.  1883. — Continued. 

The  trip  of  Apollo  Commandery  across  the  ocean  was  a  pleasant  one  indeed,  Apollo  on 
and  as  the  good  steamship  City  of  Rome  approached  Queenstown,  one  feature  ^  ^ 
of  the  evening  was  exceedingly  beautiful.  While  dense  clouds  hung  in  the 
sky  in  the  east  from  which  the  rain  was  falling,  the  sun  rays  were  struggling 
through  the  rifts  in  the  clouds  at  the  west,  and  all  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  a 
perfect  rainbow,  whose  ends  seemed  to  be  lost  in  the  sea,  a  part  of  which 
it  spanned.  It  was  a  glorious  picture-  the  white-capped,  tossing  and  roll- 
ing sea  beneath;  the  swaying,  swerving,  pitching  steamship,  with  towering 
masts,  with  sails  unfurled,  above ;  the  cloud-covered  sky  overhead  ;  the  beau- 
tiful sun  rays  flashing  across  the  deep  from  the  west  on  the  falling  rain,  until 
the  grand  prisms  of  radiant  color  in  the  rainbow  spanned  the  east.  It  was  a  The 
sight  worth  transferring  to  canvas  by  the  brush  of  a  master  artist,  or  worthy  the 
song  of  the  greatest  poet.  The  members  of  the  Commandery  recalled  the 
ilash  of  lightning  and  roll  of  thunder  as  they  formed  on  Monroe  street  in  Chi- 
cago preceding  their  departure,  and  felt  trustful  in  Divine  Providence  when  the 
beautiful  rainbow,  as  an  antitheses  to  these,  spanned  the  sky  as  a  harbinger  of 
welcome  to  foreign  shores.  The  voyage  across  the  Atlantic  was  made  in  about 
seven  days  and  was  among  the  quickest  passages  ever  made  by  any  steamer. 

The  sea- worn  Apollo  Commandery  was  gratified  and  relieved  when  it  reached 
the  Northwestern  at  Liverpool.  Upon  the  arrival  of  the  Commandery  in  Eng- 
land the  Eminent  Commander  received  the  following  document : 

Provincial  Priory  of  North  and  East  Yorkshire,  a 

V.  E.  Provincial  Prior,  Lord  Londesborough.  document. 

FrATER  in  CHRISTO  :  J-  WOODALL. 

A  large  party  of  American  Knights  Templar,  from  Chicago,  will  arrive  in  York  to-night,  and 
are  expected  to  remain  over  to-morrow. 

The  Preceptory  at  York,  has  called  a  meeting  at  6  o'clock  p.  m.,  to-morrow,  for  the  purpose  of 
exemplifying  the  English  Ritual  to  our  American  Fraters. 

The  Provincial  Prior  has  expressed  a  wish  that  the  visitors  should  receive  a  welcome  from  the 
Province,  and  has  requested  the  Provincial  Prior  of  West  Yorkshire,  V.  E.  Frater  T.  W.  Tew  to 
represent  him  on  the  occasion.  ' 

I  therefore  beg  to  inform  you  that  a  meeting  of  Provincial  Priory  of  North  and  East  Yorkshire 
will  be  opened  at  York,  to-morrow,  under  the  banner  of  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory,  and  we  request 
your  attendance. 

(A  Dinner  will  be  provided  at  8  p.  m.) 

Yours  faithfully  and  fraternally, 

„       ,  ,  S.  MiDDLETON, 

Scarborough,  23d  July,  1883.  Grand  Chancellor. 


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Liverpool. 
At  York. 


A  tour  of 
observation. 

York. 


The  city 
wall. 


The 

Philosophical 
Society's 
grounds. 


While  the  stop  at  Liverpool  was  brief,  every  opportunity  for  sight-seeing  was 
improved,  and  all  left  much  impressed  with  the  maritime  precedence  of  the  place. 

Sir  T.  B.  Whytehead  and  Sirs  J.  S.  Cumberland  and  S.  Middleton,  who 
made  up  the  committee  appointed  by  Ebor  Preceptory  to  welcome  the  Com- 
mandery,  were  at  the  station  upon  its  arrival  at  York,  and  soon  made  the  Sir 
Knights  feel  that  they  were  not  strangers  in  a  strange  land,  but,  instead,  as  if 
they  had  come  home  after  a  journey  from'  Liverpool.  They  accompanied  the 
Commandery  to  its  hotel,  and  after  dinner  fraternized  with  the  Sir  Knights  dur- 
ing the  evening  in  the  most  cordial  and  brotherly  way.  Many  Sir  Knights 
attended  the  Blue  Lodge,  and  no  more  cordial  reception  could  have  been  received 
by  Templars  than  was  vouchsafed  to  them.  Tuesday  morning,  accompanied 
by  the  Knights  of  Ebor  Preceptory,  both  Knights  and  ladies  of  Apollo 
Commandery  went  out  on  a  tour  of  observation. 

Never  will  the  impressions  made  on  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  No.  i  at  quaint 
old  York  be  forgotten.  Its  history  is  recorded  from  the  time  of  the  Roman 
occupation.  A.  D.  79,  the  illustrious  commander  Agricola  made  the  city  his 
chief  station,  and  that  year  is  the  era  of  the  foundation  of  Roman  York 
The  Emperor  Severus  died  at  York,  A.  D.  210,  and  his  body  was  here  burned 
and  his  ashes  conveyed  in  an  urn  of  porphyry  to  Rome.  Here,  it  is  said, 
Constantine  the  Great  was  born.  Here  King  Arthur  kept  Christmas  A.  D.  521; 
and  here  Edward  I  held  his  Parliaments.  Here  also  Edward  IV.  and  Richard 
III.  were  crowned  in  the  famous  chapter  house  of  York  Minster. 

The  very  wall  which  surrounded  a  part  of  the  city  when  it  was  known  as 
Eboracum  is  standing.  When  reflecting  on  these  facts,  how  imagination  ex- 
cited thought  and  feeling.  The  very  air  seemed  filled  with  the  voices  of  the 
past.  One  heard  the  imperious  tread  of  the  Roman  soldier  on  the  ramparts, 
and  moving  squadrons  went  whirling  by.  Sonorous  clarions  of  war  and  strug- 
gling hosts,  Roman  and  Saxon,  passed  over  the  scene,  and  all  that  had  made 
so  much  of  the  history  of  the  world  was  reviewed  again.  Every  inch  of  soil 
and  every  stone  has  its  history,  and  had  inanimate  matter  an  articulate  voice 
what  tales  of  oppression,  martyrdom,  war,  heroism  and  chivalric  deeds  would 
be  told.  Such  antiquity  in  realization  being  new  to  Americans,  all  proceeded 
with  feelings  akin  to  awe  and  veneration  to  visit  the  various  places  of  interest. 

The  company  first  visited  the  antiquities  in  the  grounds  of  the  Yorkshire 
Philosophical  Society,  which  occupy  about  one-half  of  the  ancient  close  of  the 
Benedictine  Abbey  of  St.  Mary.  From  place  to  place  as  they  proceeded  to  the 
ruins  of  the  great  Abbey  they  observed  stone  coffins,  which  had  been  found  m 
different  Roman  burial-grounds.  They  were  rudely  cut  from  coarse  grit  stone 
and  from  the  inscriptions  it  was  ascertained  that  many  had  been  used  several 
times.  From  the  plaster  (gypsum)  casts  of  bodies  taken  from  some  of  these 
coffins  it  was  made  manifest  that  it  was  the  early  custom  to  place  the  body  m 
one  of  these  huge  stone  receptacles  and  then  cover  it  completely  with  gypsum 
These  were  viewed  with  deep  interest,  as  the  speechless  stone  told  the  story  of 
death  and  the  methods  of  burial  in  use  by  the  generations  who  had  lived  and 
died  before  us. 


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The  Abbey  of  St.  Mary  was  once  an  immense  structure,  if  one  may  judge  Abbey  of 
by  its  ruins.    It  was  founded  at  a  period  prior  to  the  Norman  conquest. 

It  is  said  that  Siward,  a  Dane,  erected  a  church  where  it  stands,  A.  D.  1050. 
Through  varied  stages  it  grew,  until  it  was  dismantled  by  Henry  VIII.,  who 
built  a  palace  with  the  material  taken  therefrom.  The  transepts,  vestry,  nave, 
choir  chapter,  and  Abbott's  residence  are  in  ruins,  but  contemplating  one  part 
of  the  building  which  is  now  standing,  when  in  its  perfect  state,  crowned  with 
turrets,  spires,  and  crocketed  pinnacles,  it  must  have  been  grand  indeed.  To 
Masons  and  Templars  it  has  a  peculiar  interest,  because  of  the  varied  Masonic 
emblems  carved  upon  the  very  foundation  stones  as  well  as  elsewhere  by  the 
hands  of  their  brethren  who  had  wrought  and  suffered  long  before  them,  and  to 
whose  genius  these  remnants  are  a  monument. 

When  in  the  presence  of  such  ruins,  is  it  trivial  to  say  that  the  looker  on  Masonry  for 
must  feel  that  Masonry  has  existed  in  its  purity,  and  that  the  craft  have  kept  its 
tenets,  and  have  wrought  for  ages  with  the  plumb  and  square  in  both  an  opera- 
tive and  speculative  way  ? 

The  antiquities  in  the  lower  and  upper  rooms  of  the  Hospitium,  and  in  the  Antiquities 
Hall,  Theatre,  and  in  the  upper  room  of  the  Museum  were  well  worth  the  jour-  . 
ney  from  Chicago,  to  see.  Tesselated  Roman  pavements,  altars,  statues,  vases, 
coins,  tablets,  monumental  and  historical  tombs,  freezes,  and  sculptures ;  Anglo- 
Saxon  pillars,  crosses,  and  tomb-stones;  and  Anglo-Roman  relics,  consisting  of 
sculptured  stones,  are  preserved  in  every  variety  to  satisfy  the  inquiry  of  the 
curious  and  evinces  the  love  of  beauty  and  artistic  handicraft  of  the  peoples 
who  have  occupied  the  land  in  generations  long  ago. 

York  Minster  was  next  visited.  It  is  a  wonderful  piece  of  architecture,  and  York 
is  only  thirty  feet  shorter  than  Winchester  Cathedral,  is  ten  feet  longer  than  Minster. 
Canterbury  Minster,  and  twenty-six  longer  than  Lincoln  Cathedral,  being  524 
feet  long  and  250  wide.  The  Minster  was  first  made  worthy  of  the  Christian 
Capital  of  Northumbria  by  Archbishop  Wilford,  A.  D.  669,  though  a  church 
building  occupied  its  site  A.  D.  627.  It  was  destroyed  by  fire  A.  D.  1068,  at 
the  time  of  the  Northern  invasion,  and  the  central  wall  of  the  crypt  is  the  only 
relic  of  the  church  of  that  time,  and  was  rebuilt  as  far  as  nave  and  aisles,  tran- 
septs without  aisles,  and  a  massive  tower  in  the  time  of  Archbishop  Thomas, 
A.  D.  1070.  Since  that  date  it  has  been  added  to  year  by  year,  until  it  is  now  one 
of  the  grandest  cathedrals  in  the  world.  The  Chapter- House  was  built  about 
the  year  A.  D.  1300.  It  is  octagonal,  and  each  side  is  embellished  with  highly 
decorated  windows  of  stained  glass.  The  glass  in  the  Chapter- House,  how- 
ever, is  no  exception,  because  the  most  chaste  in  all  glasswork  in  design  and 
coloring  that  it  has  been  our  privilege  to  see,  is  at  the  Cathedral  of  York. 

Standing  within  the  Chapter-House  one  cannot  help  but  be  filled  with  a  feel-  Chapter 
ing  of  wonder,  admiration,  and  awe.     In  presence  of  the  exemplification  of  House, 
man's  genius  as  expressed  in  the  conception  of  this  wonderous  building,  and 
while  in  contemplation  of  its  embellishments,  and  viewing  the  work  of  the  artificers 
cunning  hand,  one  knows  that  the  Infinite  mmd  has  permeated  that  of  man,  and 
made  His  will  potent  in  execution.    Strange  histories  absorb  the  mind,  and  the 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Streams  of 

sunlight 


Provincial 
Priory  of 
Yorkshire 
opened. 


V.  E.  Sir 
T.W.Tew's 
address . 


Exemplifi- 
cation of 
Ritual. 


The  Lord 
Mayor's. 


The 

Banquet. 


The  Toasts. 


The  loving 
cup. 


heart  beats  slower  at  the  thought  of  deeds  performed  within  its  walls.  Emperors 
have  been  crowned,  and  upon  the  old  table  in  the  Chapter-House,  the  official 
seal  has  been  placed  upon  documents  affecting  the  civil  and  ecclesiastical  weal 
of  the  world,  and  debates  have  Ud  to  conclusions  which  have  advanced  or 
retarded  civilization. 

When  the  Sir  Kaights  and  ladies  turned  away  from  this  building  the  same 
sun  that  had  shone  upon  it  for  centuries  bathed  its  minarets  in  streams  of  sun- 
light the  winds  were  moaning  over  its  pinnacles,  and  the  storm-worn  antiquity 
of  its'  walls  will  probably  entrance  the  eye  of  the  beholder  centuries  hence. 

At  6  o'clock  Ebor  Preceptory  of  Templars  was  opened,  the  Knights  of  Apollo 
Commandery  participating.  At  6:30  o'clock  Very  Eminent  Sir  T.  W  Tew, 
Provincial  Prior,  who  represented  Lord  Londesborough,  Great  Provincial  Prior 
of  Yorkshire,  was  received  in  knightly  form.  The  Provincial  Priory  was  then 
opened  and  an  elaborate  address  of  welcome  on  behalf  of  the  Great  Provincial 
Priory  to  Apollo  Commandery  was  read.  It  was  a  masterly  address,  going  into 
the  chivalric  remmiscences  of  the  past,  and  connecting  the  Templary  of  a  remote 
period  with  the  present,  and  substantiating  the  Unity  of  Templarism  the  wide 
world  over.  The  references  to  Apollo  Commandery  and  the  Knights  present 
were  most  fraternal. 

The  address  was  responded  to  by  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Gassette  on 
behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery  and  the  visiting  Sir  Knights. 

The  Great  Provincial  Priory  then  closed,  and  Ebor  Preceptory  with  Very 
Eminent  Sir  Whyteliead  presiding,  exemplified  the  Templar  ritual. 

The  ritual  was  very  impressive  indeed,  and  both  Officers  and  Knights  vied 
with  each  other  to  see  who  could  best  serve  and  work. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  work  the  Preceptory  closed,  and  all  the  Knights 
repaired  to  the  mansion  of  the  Lord  Mayor  of  York,  to  attend  a  levee  of  the 
Mayor,  where  they  registered  first  on  the  official  register  and  then  on  the  Lord 
Mayor's  private  register,  the  last  of  which  he  desired  to  retain  as  a  souvemr  of 

the  event.  .        .  . 

Subsequently  the  Major-Domo  announced  the  banquet  in  waiting,  and,  pre- 
ceded by  him  and  the  guards  bearing  the  sword,  mace  and  cup  presented  to  the 
Lord  Mayor  of  York  by  Richard  IL,  to  be  borne  on  all  state  occasions,  the 
point  of  the  sword  up  save  in  the  presence  of  the  sovereign  and  the  heir-ap- 
parent to  the  crown,  the  Lord  Mayor  of  York  led  the  way  to  the  banquet  which 
had  been  spread  by  his  servants  and  served  with  his  plate  in  the  old  Guild  Hall 
of  that  ancient  city.  It  was  an  elegant  affair  indeed,  and  while  the  ^.^^  reads 
much  like  American  menus,  it  was  unlike  an  American  table  calling  for  the 
same  viands,  in  this,  that  all  that  was  served  seemed  to  be  the  very  delicacies 
of  the  season,  so  superb  was  the* cooking  and  service. 

After  about  two  hours  spent  at  the  banquet  the  toast-list  was  taken  up,  as 

T^iTfirst  toast,  proposed  by  Very  Eminent  Provincial  Prior  T.  W.  Tew,  was 
pledged  with  the  loving  cup.  The  methbd  was  as  follows  :  The  great  cup 
was  filled  full  to  the  brim  with  wine  and  handed  to  the  Lord  Mayor,  who  tasted 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


99 


it,  bowed,  and  handed  it  to  his  next  in  rank,  upon  this  occasion  Very  Eminent 
Sir  Tew,  who  drank  the  refrom,  and  handed  the  same  to  Eminent  Sir  Norman 
T.  Gassette,  who,  after  drinking,  handed  it  to  the  next  Knight,  and  thus 
onward  it  passed,  across  the  table,  from  side  to  side,  until  it  reached  the  Lord 
Mayor.  The  next  toast  was  drank  in  silence.  To  the  third  toast,  proposed  by 
V.  E.  Sir  Tew,  Sir  Philetus  Sawyer,  United  States  Senator,  was  asked  to  respond 
by  the  Lord  Mayor. 

Senator  Sawyer  gracefully  acknowledged  the  compliment,  but  said  that  he  was  gir  Kni  ht 
not  in  any  sense  a  speechmaker,  but  endeavored  to  do,  rather  than  talk,  and  Senator 
resumed  his  seat.  Sir  Aldrich  sprang  to  his  feet,  and  in  an  eloquent  manner 
thanked  Very  Eminent  Sir  Tew  and  the  Lord  Mayor  for  naming  Senator  Saw- 
yer, and  said  that  he  had  known  of  the  career  of  Sir  Sawyer  in  the  United 
States  Senate,  having  been  intimately  associated  with  him  in  various  ways 
while  in  Congress,  and  knew  of  his  ability,  probity,  and  influence,  and  that  his 
wealth  gave  evidence  that  he  was  practical.  It  was  an  interpolation  ;  and  one 
of  the  most  pleasant  events  of  an  eventful  night.  From  this  time  on  the  toasts 
were  proposed  and  responded  to  regularly. 

All  the  speeches  were  good ;  but  Sir  Knight  Reverend  Doctor  Lorimer~did  c-  -d  r> 

^  sir  xev.  JJr. 

as  he  always  does  when  such  service  is  required  of  him — made  a  superb  address,  Lorimer. 

teeming  with  good  hits  and  admirable  thoughts,  provoking  the  enthusiasm  of 

his  audience  until  they  burst  into  vociferous  applause. 

At  a  late  hour  the  banquet  ended,  the  lights  were  put  out,  and  our  Fraters 
bade  good-night.  .^anq^^^^^^ 

The  Guild  Hall,  in  which  the  Ebor  Perceptory  and  the  Lord  Mayor  spread  -phe  Guild 
the  banquet  for  the  entertainment  of  Apollo  Commandery,  was  built  in  1446,  Hall, 
or  before  Columbus  discovered  America.  All  about  its  walls  in  racks  was  the 
armor  used  in  times  of  war,  from  the  helmet  and  shield  of  the  knight  to  the 
flintlock  musket  of  the  foot  soldier,  and  the  occupancy  of  this  hall  for  the  pur- 
pose for  which  it  was  used  on  this  night,  was  an  honor  which  made  the  banquet 
to  Apollo  Commandery  one  of  the  most  notable  and  complimentary  ever 
awarded  a  Commandery  of  American  Templars. 

Thursday  morning  we  bade  adieu  to  the  warm-hearted  and  true  Templars  ^^ieu 
of  York,  and  resumed  our  journey  on  to  London. 

That  a  full  account  of  the  doings  of  Apollo  Commandery  while  at  York  may 
be  given,  and  that  the  facts  relative  tp  that  memorable  visit  may  as  fully  as  pos- 
sible be  preserved  as  a  part  of  the  most  noteworthy  history  of  the  Commandery, 
the  report  of  Very  Eminent  Sir.  T.  B.  Whytehead,  of  York,  England,  is  sub- 
joined; to-wit : 

On  the  24th  of  July,  1883,  a  very  important  gathering  of  Masons,  members  of  invited  to 
the  Order  of  the  Temple,  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  Palestine,  Rhodes,  and  Malta,  visit  York, 
took  place  at  York.  At  the  early  part  of  the  year  it  having  been  announced  that  a 
large  party  of  American  members  of  the  Order,  belonging  to  Apollo  Comman- 
dery, No.  i,K.T.  Chicago,  United  States,  proposed  visiting  England  in  the  sum- 
mer,  the  Knights  of  York  determined  to  invite  their  brother  Knights  of  Chicago 
to  witness  an  exemplification  of  the  English  Ritual  under  the  banner  of  Ancient 


IQQ  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Ebor  Preceptory,  No.  loi,  and  to  partake  of  hospitality.    With  this  intent  Emi- 
nent Frater  T.  B.  Whytehead,  Registrar  of  the  York  Preceptory,  had  been  for 
some  weeks  in  correspondence  with  Eminent  Frater  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Emi- 
nent Commander  of  Apollo  No.  I,  but  it  was  not  until  so  late  as  Sunday,  the  22d 
of  July,  that  the  actual  time  of  arrival  of  the  American  party  became  known  to 
the  York  Knights.*    Under  these  circumstances  the  time  for  preparation  was 
very  short,  and  it  is  probable  that  great  difficulties  would  have  been  experienced 
in  giving  any  suitable  entertainment,  had  not  the  Lord  Mayor  of  York  come  for- 
ward as  a  brother  Mason,  in  the  most  generous  manner,  and  placed  the  Guild- 
Hall  and  the  Mansion  House  at  the  disposal  of  his  York  brethren  for  the  pur- 
poses of  the  banquet  and  reception. 
The  arrival       The  visitors  (numbering  with  their  ladies  about  120)  arrived  in  Yorkon  Mon- 
'  day  evening,  the  23d  of  July,  and  made  their  headquarters  at  the  Station  Hotel 
where  they  were  waited  upon  and  welcomed  by  Fraters  T.  B.  Whytehead  and 
T  S.  Cumberland,  and  arrangements  were  made  for  the  next  day's  proceedings 
On  the  following  morning  the  party,  under  the  guidance  of  the  above-named 
brethren,  were  taken  to  the  Yorkshire  Philosophical  Society's  garden  and  mu- 
seum,  where  they  found  much  to  interest  them  in  the  beautiful  rums  of  St. 
Mary's  Abbey,  affording  numerous  examples  of  Mason's  marks,  the  old  King  s 
Manor,  the  Roman  walls,  the  Norman  chapel  of  St.  Leonards,  the  large  collec- 
tion of  Roman  remains,  and  the  extensive  geological  museum.    Thence  the 
party  walked  to  the  Cathedral,  entering  by  the  great  west  doors,  where  the 
What  was     magnitude  of  this  mighty  Gothic  pile  greatly  impressed  them.     Here  they  saw 
the  ancient  Saxon  Crypt,  and  the  more  recent  Norman  and  mediaeval  crypts 
where  the  Freemasons  formerly  held  their  assemblies,  the  old  ecclesiastical  and 
other  relics  and  the  numerous  monuments.     After  luncheon  a  party  of  the  visi- 
tors were  met  at  the  Masonic  Hall  by  Brother  J.  Todd,  Treasurer  of  the  York 
Lodge  who  showed  them  the  old  parchment  Rolls  of  the  Constitution  and  the 
minutes  of  the  old  Grand  Lodge  of  All  England,  documents  of  a  unique  char- 
-acter,  which  greatly  interested  them.    After  this  the  visitors  retired  to  their 
hotel  to  prepare  for  the  Templar  Reception,  which  took  place  at  the  Masonic 

Hall  at  6  o'clock.  ^      .  i  ^     i  fi,^ 

Ebor  At  that  hour  the  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory  opened  a  Special  Cone  a«  the 

Preceptory.   foiio^i„„  of  its  Members  and  Knights  of  West  Yorkshire  beingpresent :    T.  B. 

Whytehead,  P.  E.  P..  Provincial  Constable,  as  E.  P. ;  M  Millington,  E.  P..  as 
Constable;  G.  Simpson,  P.  E.  P-,  as  Marshal;  J.  S.  Cumberland,  P.  E.  P^. 
Grand  Ald-de-Camp,  Prov.  Sub.  Marshal,  as  Sub.  Marshal;  C.  L.  Mason  P. 
Prov  Sub.  Prior  West  Yorkshire,  as  Chaplain;  J.  W.  Monckman,  Prov  Chan- 
cello;  West  Yorkshire,  as  Chamberlain;  S.  Middleton,  Prov.  Chancellor,  as 
Registrar;  W.  Brown,  as  Captain  of  Guards  ;  P.  Pearson  Equery  ;  Hon^  W.  T. 
Orde-Powlett,  P.  E.  P.;  Sir  Jas.  Meek,  P.  E.  P. ;  F.  Rawhng;   E.  Holden, 


.The  remark  made  herem  by  Emmem  ^  '  T; "^V  A^aSvatbecame  know,,  to  the  York 
late  as  Suntjay,  the  ==d  July,  that  ™  the  ocean,  delays  of  days  sometimes 

Knights,"  was  in  consequence  of  the  doubtfu  transit  "'rj^y^'^;  |„'  L„„i„„,  who  being  doubt- 
occn^rr,ng,  andby  »r J^^^^  the  date,  July  24th.  had 

':l:^l7oT^::a:^lr''jI^^^^^^^^  -  York  on  time  (July  .,tb). 


'But  it  was  not  until  so 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


101 


T.  W.  Wilson;  W.  B.  Dyson;  Ivor  Murray,  M.  D.,  P.  E.  P.;  J.  C.  Taylor,  P.  E.  P. 
Bradford;  J.  Marshall,  Prov.  Reg.  West  York;  J.  B.  Sharp,  Bradford;  W.  t! 
Smithson,  Prov.  Vice-Chancellor  W.  Yorkshire;  J.  A.  Fourness,  Prov.  G,  S.  B. 
W.  York;  H.  Smith,  Wakefield;  R.  Wilson,  E.  P.,  114,  Leeds;  Alfred  Gill, 
Bradford ;  J.  Quarterman,  and  T.  Deacon,  Pontefract. 

The  American  Knights,  who  attended  in  the  uniform  of  their  Order,  were  as  Apollo 
follows :  Eminent  Knights  Norman  T.  Cassette,  E.  P.  Apollo  Commandery ;  ^^"^  Knights. 
C.  H.  Benton,  Minneapolis;  A.  Grannis,  Apollo;  K.  M.Hutchinson,  Osh 
kosh;  H.  C.  McNeil,  Sioux  City;  Doctor  Walter  A.  Stevens,  Apollo,  H.  G. 
Thayer,  Plymouth,  Ind. ;  and  the  following  Knights:  Wm.  Aldrich,  Apollo; 
A.  W.  Adcock,  Apollo;  Judge  J.  B.  Bradwell,  Apollo;  Doctor  W.  H.  Bradley, 
Apollo;  George  E.  Hilton,  Apollo;  M.  T.  Battis,  Oshkosh;  W.  M.  Barrows,' 
Minneapolis;  Claudius  F.  Beatty,  New  York;  John  B.  Beaver,  Cedar  Rapids; 
Ira  D.  Buck,  Plymouth;  Daniel  H.  Buck,  Philadelphia;  C.  A.  Burgess' 
Apollo;  Judge  J.  M.  Bailey,  Freeport ;  J.  W.  Calkins,  Apollo  :  Thomas  Crom- 
lish,  Apollo;  Judge  Horace  Corbin,  Plymouth;  J.  C.  Cummins,  Plattsmouth, 
Nebraska;  W.  Harland  Cord,  Flemingsburg,  Kentucky;  Martin  R.  Cobb] 
Apollo;  L.  P.  Dosh,  Davenport,  Iowa;  J.  A.  Davidson,  Wisconsin;  J.  m! 
Dresser,  Mason  City,  Michigan;  J.  R.  Davis,  Neenah,  Wisconsin;  E.  R.  El- 
liot, Litchfield,  Illinois;  F.  Freiberg,  Apollo;  J.  J.  Flanders,  Chevalier  Bay- 
ard; Henry  D.  Field,  Apollo;  S.  B.  Ferguson,  Danville,  Illinois ;  Bruno  H. 
Goll,  Apollo;  Frank  C.  Hormel,  Cedar  Rapids;  Charles  N.  Hammon,  Apollo; 
Reverend  F.  R.  HafF,  Oshkosh;  B.  Hagelow,  Elgin;  Doctor  A.  E.  Higbee' 
Minneapolis;  C.  O.  Hansen,  Apollo;  Walter  J.  Heyser,  Jackson,  Michigan; 
E.  M.  Horton,  Apollo;  A.  T.  Henry,  Boulder,  Colorado;  C.  M.  Kimball,  Ton- 
ica,  Illinois;  Reverend  Doctor  George  C.  Lorimer,  Apollo;  Oliver  Libbey, 
Green  Bay,  Wisconsin;  Doctor  DeLaskie  Miller,  Apollo ;  A.  J.  Mackey,  Boul- 
der; H.  C.  Morrison,  Kansas  City;  F.  H.  Peavey,  Sioux  City;  C  J.  Piper, 
Kansas  City;  A.  H.  Reed,  Apollo;  Doctor  J.  M.  Ristine,  Cedar  Rapids;  Doc- 
tor T.  P.  Russell,  Oshkosh;  W.  M.  Stearns,  Joliet,  Illinois;  Hon.  P.  Sawyer, 
Oshkosh;  Enoch  B.  Stevens,  Apollo;  J.  H.  Thompson,  Cedar  Rapids;  W.  H. 
Talbot,  De  Witt,  Iowa;  F.  E.  Willard,  St.  Bernard;  Alfred  W.  White,  Platts- 
mouth,  Nebraska;  C.  E.  Woolley,  Apollo.  * 


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CHAPTER  XIII. 


A.   D.    1883. — CONTINUED 

The  Preceptorv  having  been  opened  in  due  form,  Frater  T.  B.  Whytehead 
llZTof     announced  that  Frater  J.  S.  Cumberland  was  present  for  the  first  time  after  his 
opened appointment  as  a  Grand  Aide-de-Camp  of  England,  and  he  claimed  for  him  the 
usual  salute,  which  was  given  and  acknowledged.    Frater  Whytehead  then  said 
that  at  the  desire  of  the  Very  Eminent  Provincial  Prior,  Lord  Londesborough, 
Very  Eminent  Frater  T.  W.  Tew,  Provincial  Prior  of  West  Yorkshire,  would 
be  received  and  take  the  throne,  in  order  that  the  ceremonies  and  reception 
might  partake  of  a  county  character.    The  Provincial  Prior  was  then  announced 
by  blast  of  trumpet,  and  entered,  attended  by  the  banner  bearer,  under  the- 
Arch  of  Steel,  and  was  afterwards  saluted.    Eminent  Frater  Whytehead  then 
handed  to  him  the  baton  of  his  office,  and  took  his  seat  at  the  left  of  the  altar, 
the  Provincial  Prior  assuming  the  throne.    The  Provincial  Chancellor  (Eminent 
Frater  S.  Middleton)  having  read  letters  from  Lord  Londesborough  desiring 
Very  Eminent  Frater  Tew  to  represent  him,  the  Provincial  Prior  on  the  throne 
proceeded  to  open  a  Provincial  Priory,  and  then  delivered  the  followmg 
address : 

Brof/zer  Knight  Cassette  and  Knights  of  the  Apollo  Commandery,  Chicago, 
Address  of  ,  S  A 

t;  w".  Tew.  J  am  commanded  by  the  Right  Honorable  the  Lord  Londesborough,  the  Pro- 
vincial Prior  of  this  North  and  East  Province  of  Yorkshire,  in  his  absence,  and 
that  of  his  Sub-Prior,  Brother  Knight  Woodall,  to  offer  a  cordial  and  fraternal 
greeting  to  a  large  number  of  American  Knights,  of  the  -  Apollo  "  Command- 
ery Chicago,  United  Slates,  who  are  present  in  this  old  City  of  York,  to  make' 
themselves  acquainted  with  its  antiquities,  and  who  desire  to  take  advantage  of 
this  opportunity  of  witnessing  an  exemplification  of  the  English  ritual  of  Knight 
Templaryin  the  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory,  No.  loi,  on  the  Statute  Roll  of 
England.  His  Lordship  expressly  desires  me  to  say  that  duties  in  London, 
which  he  cannot  avoid,*  prevent  him  being  present  on  this  interesting  occasion, 
but  that  with  all  his  heart  he  is  most  anxious  that  the  distinguished  visitors  to 
Great  Britain  and  to  York,  shall  have  offered  to  them,  this  evening,  as  fraternal 
a  welcome  as  the  shortness  of  their  announced  visit  could  allow-a  welcome 
in  fact,  equivalent,  if  possible,  to  that  which  is  always  extended  to  English 
Templars,  when  they  cross  the  Atlantic,  to  the  States  of  Am^  A^ 

■-^iT^^^^^l^lngl^d"^^^  House  of  Lords  on  the  same 

night. 


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Provincial  Prior,  I,  and  the  Knights  of  the  two  Provinces  now  united,  desire  to  Address 

11  r    1  •  •        •      1  continue 

do  honor  to  our  guests  or  this  evening,  in  the  same  earnest  spirit  as  m  the  wish 
bequeathed  to  us  by  Lord  Londesborough.  We  one  and  all  reciprocate  his  Lord- 
ship's sentiments,  and  we  are  here  to-night,  in  no  niggard  spirit,  to  welcome  in 
the  warmest  possible  manner  the  Apollo  Commandery  to  our  Yorkshire  Masonic 
circle,  and  our  heartiest  wishes  accompany ,  the  performance  of  this  act.  Brother 
Knights,  we  receive  you  with  gladness  of  heart, — we  salute  you  with  kindness 
and  friendship, — and  ask  you  to  accept  our  hospitality.  We  beg  to  assure  you 
that  you  confer  a  complimentary  pleasure  on  the  Knights  of  the  two  Provinces, 
in  affording  us  this  opportunity  of  expressing  our  sympathies  and  good-will 
towards  the  American  Knights  of  Chicago.  We  believe  visits  of  this  kind  will 
tend  to  consolidate  these  benevolent  principles  of  the  Order  in  our  hearts,  which 
have  for  their  object  the  unanimity,  happiness,  and  prosperity  of  all  mankind, 
and  affection  and  loyalty  to  brethren  working  by  precept  and  example  for  the 
pei  petui.ty  of  those  supreme  tenets  on  which  virtue  and  morality  are  founded, 
wherever  Templary  is  resident,  in  all  parts  of  the  world.  It  would  be  super- 
fluous in  me  to  dilate  much  on  these  grand  objects  and  motives  of  our  brotherly 
associations.  They  are  the  practices  of  ages.  There  are  also  equality  and 
charity,  faith  in  God,  humility  and  obedience  to  the  tenets  of  the  everlasting 
gospels.  We  know  where  they  are  set  forth,  and  why  they  are  set  forth,  and 
what  kind  of  human  nature  they  were  to  benefit.  These  great  truths  are  every- 
where surrounded  with  symbolisms.  The  world  has  not  outgrown  symbols. 
They  are  often  needed  as  the  illustrations  of  truths.  They  are  the  "  outward 
and  visible  signs  of  inward  and  spiritual  truths,"  revealed  to  us  by  holy  men 
of  old,  as  they  were  moved  to,  write,  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  in  the  Volume  of  the 
Sacred  Law.  These  symbols  contain  the  emblems  of  our  art,  and  we  apply 
them  to  morals  and  benevolence.  As  an  illustration,  I  need  only  refer  to  one 
great  and  sublime  fact  embodied  in  the  Worshipful  Master's  Degree.  Our  watch- 
words. Fortitude,  Prudence  and  Justice,  are  for  us  not  words  only,  but  symbols 
also.  "  The  grand  object  of  Masonry  and  Templary,"  said  your  Illustrious 
George  Washington,  "  is  to  promote  the  happiness  of  the  human  race."  "  It  is 
an  Order,"  said  another  brother,  Lafayette,  ''whose  leading  star  is  philan- 
thropy." "I  need  not  remind  you,"  said  that  eminent  missionary,  Daniel 
Poor,  that  our  institution  is  founded  upon  those  broad  principles  of  benevo- 
lence and  humanity  which  the  Governor  of  the  Universe  revealed  to  men." 
These  are  our  ancient  landmarks  in  Great  Britain,  as  in  America  and  through- 
out the  Christian  World.  In  the  hands  of  every  Grand  Master  they  are  his  rule 
and  guide  of  Masonic  and  Templar  affairs.  Templary  interferes  with  no  sector 
denomination.  It  has  one  sign,  and  by  this  sign  it  tries  to  conquer  sin  and 
wickedness,  and  to  bring  the  light  of  benevolence  into  dark  places  of  the  earth, 
that  men  may  see  our  good  works  and  glorify  the  G.  A.  O.  T.  U.  But  it  affords 
also  one  place  where,  without  denial  of  beliefs,  all  can  recognize  the  mighty 
claims  of  brotherhood  in  human  nature,  and  have  the  asperities  of  dividing  lines 
softened.    Such  a  place  is  Ebor  Preceptory  to-day,  and  the  patriotism  of  the 


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Address        two  Priories  of  West  and  North  and  East  York,  and  the  Commandery  of  Chi- 
continued.     ^^^^g^^  ^^^.g  immutably  strengthened  by  this  union  of  the  three  brotherhoods.  In 
this  institution,  which  inherits  the  principles  of  unknown  centuries,  are  gathered 
together  the  lessons  of  experience  ;  and  friendships  formed  in  this  inner  circle 
of  symbolical  Templary  promise  a  future  strength  to  the  Order  which  time  can- 
not weaken  or  adversity  destroy.    It  is  a  central  home,  in  which  are  always  to 
be  found  not  only  its  own  Knights,  but  visitors  from  every  clime.    This  broth- 
erhood to-day  is  steadfast,  immovable,  united,  and  powerful  for  good.    It  is 
profoundly  impressed  by  the  virtues,  teachings,  and  principles  by  which  it  was 
originated,  and  it  stands  in  the  grandeur  of  its  equanimity,  conscious  of  its 
antiquity,  and  unshaken  in  its  adherence  to  its  organic  laws.    Knights,  we  wel- 
come you  to  York,  where  King  Athelstan  once     caused  a  general  assembly  of 
all  Masons  in  the  realme,"  and  gave  them  "  a  deep  charge  for  observation  of 
such  articles  as  belong  to  Masonry,  and  delivered  them  a  charter  to  keep"  — 
"  the  source  and  origin  of  British  Freemasonry."    Welcome  to  that  hall  where 
is  still  preserved  the  earliest  roll  of  Masters  of  "  the  old  Lodge  at  York,"  that 
Grand  Lodge  of  All  England  held  at  York  from  1705  to  1792.    This  welcome 
is  accorded  in  the  city  of  York  to  you  Knights  of  Chicago,  descendants  of  that 
Charter  of  5th  June,  1730,  from  our  Duke  of  Norfolk,  then  Grand  Master  to 
your  Daniel  Cox,  "  to  be  Provincial  Grand  Master  of  the  Provinces  of  New 
York,  New  Jersey,  and  Pennsylvania  in  America;  to  constitute  the  brethren 
there  in  those  parts  into  one  or  more  regular  Lodges  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons."    My  Brother  Knight  T.  B.  Whytehead,  in  his  paper  ilth  September, 
1877,  has  linked  the  Templars  and  the  Freemasons  of  the  city  of  Old  York  to 
New  York.    He  has  shown  the  oldest  evidence  of  the  connection  between 
Templary  and  Masonry.    He  has  shown  through  the  gap  from  131 1  to  Febru- 
ary, 1780,  how  the  Masonic  Fraternity  took  the  Knights  under  their  fostering 
care,  and  aided  them  in  secret  in  their  ceremonies.    He  has  shown  that  though 
the  Order  was  suppressed,  it  was  never  extinguished;  and  he  has  established  the 
theory  of  a  direct  succession  in  the  Order,  and  that  we  the  Knights  of  the  two 
Provinces  of  Yorkshire,  and  you  Knights  of  Chicago,  have  a  right  to  be  consid- 
ered legitimate  Knights  of  the  Temple,  descended  from  the  Ancient  Crusaders. 
Let  us  congratulate  ourselves  that  this  Order  is  prospering  and  flourishing  in 
the  great  continent  of  America,  as  well  as  Great  Britain.    Here,  then,  let  us  re- 
new, in  this  ancient  city  of  York,  and  in  this  temple,  our  devotion  to  the  princi- 
ples which  have  held  the  brotherhoods  together  for  so  many  centuries.  Here 
let  us  swear  eternal  friendship  to  the  Knights  in  America  and  elsewhere — 
wheresoever  they  be.    May  our  descendants  in  the  generations  to  come,  as  our 
gallant  leaders  did  in  the  generations  that  have  passed,  proclaim  "  In  Hoc  Signo 
Vinces.-"    Let  us  learn  wisdom  from  the  ages,  that  we  may  understand  what  is 
comprehensible  in  the  present.    May  the  blessings  of  the  G.  A.  O.  T.  U.,  who 
made  all  peoples  in  the  earth  remain  with  us,  and  prosper  the  Order.    May  the 
successive  Presidents  of  the  United  States  foster  and  encourage  Templary  in 
their  dominions.    May  prosperity,  happiness,  and  goodwill  never  fail  between 


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the  twomight)'-  Anglo-Saxon  speaking  nations;  and  thus,  American  Knights  of  Address 
the  Apollo  Commandery,  in  Shakspeare's  language,  we  say :  concluded. 

"  Sirs,  you  are  welcome  to  our  house 

"  It  must  appear  in  other  ways  than  words 

"  Therefore  I  scant  this  breathing  courtesy." 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  address,  which  was  listened  to  with  the  deepest 

.  '  ^       The  proper 

attention,  the  American  visitors  received  the  proper  salute,  and  after  acknowl-  salute. 

edgments  on  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery  and  her  accompanying  guests  had 
been  made  by  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Eminent  Commander  of  Apollo 
Commandery,  the  Provincial  Priory  closed. 

Eminent  Frater  T.  B.  Whytehead  then  resumed  the  baton  of  office  and  Com-  The 
panion  Martin  Mason  Reynard,  of  the  Sykes  Lodge  1040,  and  Londesborough  r^ju^J^'' 
Chapter,  734,  who  had  been  proposed  by  letter  and  previously  ballotted  for,  exemplified, 
was  introduced,  obligated,  entrusted,  served  his  probationary  term,  and  retired, 
after  which  he  re-entered,  was  acknowledged,  admitted  and  finally  dubbed  a 
Knight  of  the  Order  of  the  Temple  and  Sepulchre,  the  work  being  exemplified 
by  the  officers  of  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory,  stationed  as  before  mentioned.  The 
hall  was  set  out  as  a  chapel  of  the  Ancient  Order  prepared  for  the  reception  of 
a  novice.    At  the  conclusion  of  the  ceremonies,  the  Provincial  Prior  and  his 
officers  retired  under  the  Arch  of  Steel,  with  a  flourish  of  trumpets.  The 
Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory  was  then  closed,  the  American  visitors  also  retiring 
under  the  Arch  of  Steel. 

At  eight  o'clock,  the  Knights  and  their  visitors  assembled  at  the  Mansion  The  Lord 
House,  the  front  of  which  was  illuminated  in  their  honor,  where  they  were  ^^yo^'s. 
courteously  received  in  the  Great  State  Room  by  Brother  the  Lord  Mayor  of 
York,  who  wore  his  massive  gold  chain  of  office  and  was  attended  by  his  Sword 
and  Mace  Bearers,  and  from  thence  a  procession  was  formed,  headed  by  his 
Lordship  and  the  Provincial  Prior  down  the  Grand  Staircase  into  the  Guildhall 
of  York,  where  a  magnificent  banquet  had  been  laid  out  with  a  hundred  covers,  TheBanquet. 
the  band  meanwhile  playing  a  selection  of  American  national  airs.    The  tables 
were  arranged  in  horseshoe  form,  and  were  decorated  with  greenhouse  plants, 
fruit  and  flowers.    Here  the  scene  was  most  striking,  the  aspect  of  the  beautiful 
mediaeval  hall,  with  its  oaken  roof  and  pillars,  Gothic  stained  glass  windows, 
depicting  historic  scenes  of  chivalry,  and  walls  decorated  with  guns  and  pikes, 
being  perfectly  in  accordance  with  the  character  of  the  gathering.    Upon  the 
tables  were  displayed  the  massive  gold  and  silver  beakers,  bowls,  salvers  and 
vases  of  the  Corporation  of  York,  whilst  the  huge  Loving  Cup  of  the  Eboracum  ^he  Loving 
Lodge  of  the  Freemasons,  with  its  date  of  1694,  occupied  a  distinguished  posi-  Cup. 
tion,  the  Sword  and  Mace  being  supported  in  front  of  the  Lord  Mayor. 

Very  Eminent  Frater  T.  W.  Tew  presided,  and  was  supported  by  the  Lord 
Mayor  on  his  right  and  Eminent  Frater  Norman  T.  Gassette  on  his  left,  there 
being  also,  in  close  proximity  to  the  chair,  Fraters  T.  B.  Whytehead,  Hon.  P. 
Sawyer,  Rev.  Dr.  Lorimer,  Sir  James  Meek,  C.  H.  Benton,  Rev.  F.  R.  Haff, 
Right  Eminent  Sir  Henry  G.  Thayer,  Sir  Judge  Horace  Corbin,  and  others. 


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The  toast : 
The  Queen 


Fraters  T  S.  Cumberland  and  M.  Millington  occupied  the  vice-chairs,  sup- 
ported by  leading  American  and  English  brethren  of  the  Order,  Brother 
J.  T.  Seller,  P.  M.,  1611,  and  Bro.  T.  Humphries,  Sec.  1611,  bemg  present 
by  invitation. 

The  following  was  the  jnenu  : 

Menu.  Soups-Clear  turtle ;  puree  of  green  peas.  ^  .  ^  f  .1.= 

FiSH-Salmon-Hollandaise  sauce;  turbot-lobster  sauce  ;  fned  fillets  of  soles 
Rh"  VHS-Roastlamb  ;  roast  beef;  boiled  chickens  and  ham  ;  pigeonp.es  ;  cauhflowers;  peas; 

potatoes.  ,  .  , 

Ducklings  and  peas  ;  roast  chickens. 

SvvKKTS-Plun.  puddings;   wine  jellies;    vanilla  creams;   Genoese  pastry;  fruit  tart  and 
custard. 

Maccaroni  cheese. 
Dessert,  Coffee,  etc. 

Capof  During  the  Banquet  the  Cap  of  Maintenance,  presented  tothe  city  by  Ricl,ard 

maLtenanoe  „         always  worn  by  the  Lord  Mayor's  sword-bearer,  was,  by  permission  o 
hisLordship,  submitted  to  the  inspection  of  the  visitors,  who  expressed  great 
interest  in  this  venerable  relic  of  past  centuries.  .     ,  f 

Just  before  the  tables  were  cleared  the  Provincial  Prior  gave  the  toast  of 
"  The  Queen,  the  Patroness  of  our  Order."  He  said  :  My  Lord  Mayor  and 
Brother  Knights,-!  have  the  honor  of  proposing  the  health  of  the  Sovereign 
of  the  British  Empire,  Her  most  gracious  Majesty,  the  Queen.  I  beg  to  include 
in  this  toast  Her  Majesty's  other  title,  that  of  Empress  of  India.  May  h 
G  A  O  T  U.  restore  our  beloved  Queen  to  perfect  health,  and  long  may  she 
continue  in  the  possession  of  that  blessing,  "  The  love  of  her  people. 

The  toast  was  received  with  enthusiasm,  the  band  playing  the  National 

ThrCHAIRMAN  then  rose  and  said:  My  Lord  Mayor  and  Brother  Knights  - 
It  is  my  privilege  this  evening  on  account  of  the  guests  present  in  this  hall 
from  Chicago,  to  ask  you  to  drink  the  next  toast  with  Yorkshire  acc  amaUons^ 
It  is  the  first  time  in  my  life  such  a  proposal  has  fallen  into  my  hands.  Would 
that  I  eould  do  it  adequate  justice.  Would  that  I  could  find  language  to  com- 
mend it  to  your  consideration  with  that  fitness  which  it  truly  merits.  But  free 
voices  will  respond  in  adequate  measure,  and  compensate  by  the  hearUness  with 
which  you  will  receive  this  toast  for  the  feebleness  of  iny  words  The Jres,- 
dent,  the  Senate  and  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United  Stat  s  of 
America,  have  an  interest  tor  Englishmen  second  only  to  the  governmg  author- 
ities  of  the  British  Empire.  Wherever  on  the  continent  Englishmen  travel  the 
name  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  is  always  received  with  respect 
and  at  the  churches  and  chapels  his  name  is  prayed  for  after  our  Queen  and 
Royal  family.  I  give  you  the  health  of  General  Chester  A.  Arthur,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  of  America.  He  presides  over  a  territory  extending 
between  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Oceans,  an  area  estimated  at  over  4,000,000 
English  square  miles,  and  with  a  population  of  perhaps  more  than  52,000,000 
of  people     The  trade  of  the  Federal  Republic  exercises  a  great  influence  on 


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that  of  other  nations,  and  particularly  with  Great  Britain— the  exports  to  us 

being  £i04,ooo,ooolastyearof  money's  worth  sterling;  the  imports ^37,000,000 

—a  mighty  trade  between  the  two  great  Saxon  speaking  races  of  the  world,'and 

the  best  guarantee  for  eternal  friendship  to  both  of  them.    With  the  health  of 

the  President  I  desire  to  connect  the  name  of  Senator,  the  Hon.  P.  Sawyer. 

I  am  told  he  has  immense  influence  in  the  Legislative  House  at  Washington.    I  The  toast: 

am  told  he  is  very  rich.    May  he  use  his  wealth  and  influence  for  the  good  of  fJSident 

both  countries.    I  give  you  the  toast  of  the  President  of  the  United  States. 

The  toast  was  received  with  three  times  three,  the  band  playing  the  American  S^tatS 
National  Anthem,  and  was  briefly  responded  to  by  Senator  Sawyer. 

The  Chairman  then  gave  the  toast  of  the  Grand  Masters  of  the  Order  of  The  toasts 
the  Temple  in  England  and  the  United  States,  which  was  cordially  drank,  after  Mast^r"^ 

Wilich  ofEngland 

Eminent  Frater  T.  B.  Whytehead,  P.  E.  P.,  P.  G.,  Captain  of  Guards,  and  United 
Hon.  Provincial  Prior  of  Canada,  rose  and  said  :    Very  Eminent  Provincial 
Prior,  My  Lord  Mayor  and  Brother  Knights,  I  accept  with  pleasure  the  task 
that  has  fallen  to  my  lot  this  evening  to  propose  the  toast  of  -  Our  American 
Visitors."    I  need  hardlysay  that  it  is  a  great  source  of  delight  to  us  to  see  at 
our  board  this  evening  such  a  brave  muster  of  the  Knights  of  the  Order  from 
the  great  continent  at  the  other  side  of  the  wide  Atlantic.    It  was  early  in  this 
year  that  Mearned  from  the  Masonic  press  that  our  friends  now  present  con- 
templated a  pilgrimage  to  England.    Well,  brethren,  it  was  not  the  first  time 
that  we  had  entertained  pilgrims  in  grand  old  Vork ;  and  so  I  wrote  to  my  dear 
Brother  here  on  my  right  hand  and  invited  him  and  his  party  to  visit  ancient 
Eboracum  and  to  witness  an  exemplification  of  our  English  Ritual.    The  invi- 
tation was  accepted  in  a  fraternal  spirit,  as  of  course  we  knew  would  be  the 
case,  and  here  we  are,  surrounded  by  this  splendid  gathering  of  American 
Templars,  congratulating  ourselves  upon  the  success  of  our  undertakina     And  ' 
I  am  charmed  to  know,  fratres  of  York,  that  our  visitors  have  alreaV  been 
captivated  by  the  delights  of  our  quaint  old  city,  inasmuch  as  my  good  friend 
and  Brother  Knight  Gassette  has  told  me  that  he  has  not  seen  any  place  that  he 
would  more  readily  select  for  a  residence  than  our  dear  old  York.    I  wish  he 
would  carry  out  his  inclination  ;  for  if  he  did  I  should  be  able  to  proclaim  that 
we  had  under  our  auspices  a  grand  pillar  of  the  Order  and  a  noble  accession  to 
our  ranks.    Fratres!    On  a  former  memorable  occasion  we  had  the  privilege 
of  greeting  a  party  of  Knights  of  the  Mary  Commandery  No.  36,  Philadelphia 
To-day,  we  meet  sixty-five  Knights,  principally  of  Apollo  Commandery,  Chi- 
cago.    We  are  proud  and  glad  to  entertain  them  in  this  grand  old  hall  Had 
It  not  been  for  the  fraternal  generosity  of  our  Brother  the  Lord  Mayor  we 
might  have  been  placed  in  a  difficult  position  in  this  matter.    But  I  am  glad  to 
be  able  to  tell  you  that  when  I  went  to  his  lordship  and  explained  the  difficulty 
in  which  we  found  ourselves  as  regarded  a  suitable  room,  he  at  once  said  this 
noble  building  was  at  our  disposal,  and  that  he  would  do  all  in  his  power  to 
assist  us  m  our  endeavors  to  do  honor  to  our  visitors.    Our  Lord  Mayor  is 
probably  one  of  the  youngest  Masons  present  in  this  Guildhall  of  York   but  he 
has  early  learned  the  first  Masonic  lesson.    All  honor  to  him  !  Brethren   I  do 


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The  toast  •     not  think  I  need  further  expatiate  upon  this  toast.    You  have  all  come  here  to 
do  special  honor  to  our  guests,  and  I  therefore  give  you  without '  further  delay 


Our 

American 

visitors.  Qur  American  Visitors 


The  toast  was  received  with  immense  applause. 
Reply  of  Eminent  Frater  NoRMAN  T.  GassettE  then  rose  amidst  much  cheering,  and 

T   said— My  Lord  Mayor,  Very  Eminent  Provincial  Prior,  and  Fratres,— In 
G^'set'e.       responding  to  the  toast,  "Our  American  Visitors,"  proposed   by  Eminent 
Frater  T.  B.  Whytehead,  allow  me  on  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  I, 
Knights  Templar  of  Chicago,  and  the  Templars  of  other  Commands  who  have 
accompanied  me  hither,  to  thank  you  for  the  distinguished  honor  which  you 
have  conferred  on  us  by  the  chivalric  and  fraternal  welcome  extended  at  the 
hands  of  both  Fraters  and  citizens  of  York,  and  for  the  singular  and  gracious 
favor  of  a  reception  at  the  hands  of  the  Lord  Mayor,  and  for  the  privilege  of 
participating  in  a  banquet  spread  in  our  honor  in  this  memorable  Guildhall  of 
your  city.    I  am  unable  to  tell  how  all  have  been  impressed  with  what  hasbeen 
seen  in  your  beautiful  city  during  a  too  brief  sojourn,  or  what  thoughts  have 
crowded  into  the  labyrinths  of  the  brain,  or  what  pulsations  of  the  heart  have 
sent  the  hot  blood  through  the  veins,  or  what  images  have  been  pictured  on  the 
memory  by  the  pencil  of  factor  imagination.    But  to  me  it  has  been  both  a 
pleasurable,  memorable  and  impressive  visit.     Pleasurable,  because  of  the 
warmth  of  your  welcome  and  the  present  beauty  of  your  city  ;  memorable,,  by 
reason  of  that  which  has  been  pleasurable,  as  well  as  on  account  of  masonic 
andquities;   and  impressive  because  we  stand  on  ground  made  famous  by 
reason  of  its  histories  and  legends,  and  because  we  feel  as  if  standing  m  imme- 
diate proximity  to  the  presences  of  the  hoary  past  and  those  who  once  peopled 
this  land,  though  dwelling  in  the  present  of  to-night.    To  you  of  York,  who, 
day  by  day,  tread  the  soil  with  which  the  dust  of  the  cohorts  of  the  Caesars  has 
commingled  centuries  ago,  it  may  not  impress  you  as  it  does  me  because  of 
your  every  day  familiarity.    To  me,  however,  the  past  is  vivified.    I  see  your 
and  our  forefathers  of  Britain  tread  its  soil,  when  King  Ebraucus  founded  and 
called  your  city  Eboracum  and  David  reigned  in  Jerusalem  !    I  hear  the  tramp 
of  the  Roman  soldier  under  Agricola,  the  rush  of  contending  armies,  and  the 
homely  carols  of  the  tillers  of  the  soil.    The  vast  panorama  of  the  past  is  before 
me     Standing  in  this  hall  erected  in  1446,  prior  to  the  discovery  of  America  (the 
home  of  your  guests),  granted  in  perpetuity  to  your  city  by  Edward  VL;  embel- 
lished by  memorial  windows  with  pictorial  representations  of  past  events,  which 
are  pregnant  with  memories  of  the  Edwards,  Richards  and  Plantaganets ;  com- 
memorative of  grants  to  the  people;  of  charters  declaratory  of  civil  rights  ;  and 
huno-  with  arms  used  by  the  sons  of  England,  how  can  it  be  otherwise  ?  My 
hear"  beats  faster,  and  my  mind  is  thrilled  with  the  thought  that  we  are  all  km. 
We  of  America  and  you  of  England  are  of  the  same  ancestry.    You  have  a 
right  to  be  proud  of  your  land  and  we  of  ours,  and  then  to  reciprocate  by 
admiring  the  land  and  home  of  each  other.    For  we  have  a  common  purpose 
in  the  propagation  of  a  higher  civilization;  a  common  tongue,  an  honorable 
ancestry,  a  noble  hope  for  the  future,  and  a  common  bond  of  sympathy  and 
humanity.    It  holds  the  past,  the  present,  and  future  of  peoples,  masonic  or 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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civic,  together,  because  the  past  hands  on  to  the  present,  and  the  present  to  the 
future.  I  can  sympathize  with  those  brethren  whose  busy  hands  wrought  and  S)nduded 
graved  their  masonic  marks  upon  the  foundation  stones  and  walls  of  the  ancient 
Abbey  of  St.  Mary,  which  stands  in  your  city,  eight  or  ten  centuries  ago,  be- 
cause they  were  my  brethren,  actuated  by  the  same  sentiments,  suffering  like 
cares  with  those  of  our  brethren  of  to-day  in  every  way;  sentiments  which  were 
noble,  and  in  verity  worthy  of  soldiers  of  the  Temple,  chivalric  forerunners  of 
a  chivalric  age,  and  of  us  Templars,  followers  of  the  Cross  of  Jesus  Christ, 
Our  Frater  Whytehead,  in  proposing  the  toast  to  which  I  have  the  honor  to 
respond,  in  giving  utterance  to  the  promptings  of  his  heart,  in  conveying  the 
sentiments  of  Knights  of  Ebor  Preceptory,  only  exemplifies  the  spirit  which 
makes  the  whole  world  of  Templars  one,  by  voicing  the  language  of  the  soul. 
Let  me  quote  lines  written  by  this  good  and  chivalric  Knight  of  York,  which 
contain  the  symbolization  of  what  I  have  expressed,  and  in  language  fit  for 
any  age  :— 

"  Deem  not  for  lack  of  lance  and  waving  crest 

That  chivalry  hath  departed  ;  though  the  brow 

Show  where  the  deep  worn  lines  of  thought  have  prest, 

Not  the  tight  clasping  of  the  helmet  now  ; 

And  skirt  of  steel  be  changed  for  studious  vest ;  — 

Still  doth  the  old  heart  live,  whose  knightly  vow 

Did  once  with  lofty  deeds  the  world  endow, 

And  dignity  on  meanest  things  imprest. 

Are  not  the  dead  around  thee  ;  is  not  thine 

The  past  as  an  inheritance  to  stir 

High  memories  in  thee,  which  thy  blood  may  warm  ? 

And  lives  not  fiction,  Truth's  romantic  shrine, 

Whence  Payen's  self  thou  mayest  unsepulchre, 

And  take  thy  knighthood  from  his  skeleton  arm? 
May  the  Lord  bless  you,  Brother  Knights  of  York,  and  true  Templars  the 
world  over,  and  may  we  soon  have  the  pleasure  of  meeting  you  in  the  Asylum 
of  Apollo  Commandery  in  the  City  of  Chicago. 

The  response  was  received  with  prolonged  applause  and  cordial  expressions 
of  mutual  good-will. 

Frater  the  Rev.  Dr.  Geo.  C.  Lorimer  then  rose  and  said:— Very  Eminent 
Provincial  Prior,  My  Lord  Mayor  and  Brethren,  I  rise  to  perform  the  very  '^"'^^^ 
agreeable  task  of  proposing  the  health  and  prosperity  of  the  Knights  Templar 
of  Yorkshire.    In  doing  so,  I  may  be  allowed  to  trespass  on  your  good  nature 
for  a  few  minutes.    We  have  heard  this  evening  of  fraternity,  and  it  may 
be  mentioned  as  in  evidence  of  its  reality  that  we  visiting  knights  have 
scarcely  been  able  to  realize  that  we  are  not  of  York;  for  where  any  word  Rev.  Dr. 
complimentary  to  American  Masonry  has  been  uttered  we  have  applauded 
as  though  we  were  not  the  complimented  parties,  and  we  have  frequently 
responded  when  propriety  should  have  kept  us  silent.    In  other  words,  the 
American  visitors  have  so  fully  identified  themselves  with  their  hosts  that  power 
of  discrimination  seems  to  have  fled.    [Laughter.]    Mr.  Mayor— (great  laughter  Lorimer 
by  the  Americans)— excuse  me,  my  Lord,  but  you  must  know  that  we  call  sim- 
ilar dignitaries  in  our  country  "  Mr."  and  the  word  «'  Lord,"  applied  to  men, 
does  not  come  trippingly  from  our  tongues.    No  disrespect  is  meant.    I  was 


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proposes       about  to  observe  that  this  historic  chamber  starts  nrany  cur.ous  reflections  We 
are  here  in  a  hall  which  was  built  before  America  was  discovered,  adorned 
with  symbols  of  history  reminding  us  of  the  progress  which  the  world  has 
achieved  in  art,  science,  and  brotherhood.    These  stained  glass  windows  record 
the  deeds  of  knightly  valor,  of  civic  triumphs,  the  municipal  glory  of  \ork 
and,  more  than  all,  the  conquests  of  peace,  commemorated  W        F^'-^^  °f 
Prince  Albert  being  placed  in  this  chamber  on  the  close  of  the  World's  Expo- 
sition in  1851.    And  now  the  Old  World  welcomes  the  New,  and  this  ancient 
c^^^y extends  a  greeting  to  the  citizens  of  the  most  modern.  Whatdoes  itmean  , 
wL  does  it  feebly  adumbrate  ?    Am  I  wrongwhen  I  assert  that  it  isprophetic 
of  the  closer  union  of  all  branches  of  the  English  spealcing  race  on  the  basis 
of  a  common  historj-,  common  tradition  and  religion?    [Applause.]    ^  ou 
remember  the  excitement  which  greeted  the  declaration  of  the  young  Russ  an 
"eneral  regarding  the  unity  of  the  Sclavic  races.    I  am  as  firm  a  believer  in  the 
;X  of  the  English  peoples  of  America,  of  Canada,  of  Australia,  of  Africa, 
of  England.  W^  are  all  one  ;  one  in  our  love  of  liberty  and  hatred  of  tyranny; 
our  de'votion  to  constitutional  government,  free  speech,  free  press  and  free 
ZwL    [Loud  applause.]    In  the  perfection  of  this  unity  Templarism  has 
born  no  inconsiderle  part,  and  is  destined  to  still  greater  influence     In  this 
city  the  unhappy  members  of  our  Order  found  refuge  from  persecution;  here 
the  Order  effected  its  alliance  with  speculative  Masonry ;  here  for  years  the 
Grand  Lodge  met  which  sheltered  the  Templars,  and  from  this  source  modern 
?  mplarism  in  the  world  has  sprung.    Having  such  an  origin,  and  having  an 
°f  earlier  ori«n  in  the  desire  to  maintain  Christianity-the  foundation  of  biothei- 

W  ever;wherc-it  has  been  inevitable  that  they  should  cherish  the  spint  of 
fraurnitv  which  cherished  them,  and  for  the  furtherance  of  which  they  are  so - 
Imnlv  pledged.  Consequently,  they  have  done  what  they  could  to  make  all 
race  oL,  and  especially  have  they  desired  the  harmony  of  the  political  accord 
of  the  English-speaking  people.  [.Applause.]  Towards  this  consummation 
tv  have  contributed,  and  in  the  success  of  this  aim  and  the  triumph  of 
Christian  religion  they  find  their  mission.  Conspicuous  in  this  noble  cause 
hav  he  Templars  of  York  labored.  They  have  in  ormer  years  extended  a 
cordi  1  welcome  to  our  sister  Commandery  of  Philaddphia,  and  now  extend  a 
Taceful  greeting  to  those  of  us  .vho  hail  from  the  West  I  know  that  I  but 
T  .plarsof  ~  ySur  sentiments  when  I  assure  them  that  we  appreciate  their  kindness. 
Templars  of  express  y  ^^^.^  ^.^^  ^^^^^ 

rjd  by  them  in  the  great  work  of  helping,  blessing  and  elevating  mankind. 

\Yho  would  not  brave  champions  be 

In  this  the  lordlier  chivalry-  ? 

Oh  !  these  be  hearts  that  ache  to  see. 

The  day  dawn  of  our  liberty 

Work,  brothers  work,  work  might  and  main, 

We'll  win  the  golden  age  again. 

And  love's  millennial  morn  shall  rise. 

O'er  happy  hearts,  in  beaming  eyes. 

We  will— you  will,  brave  warriors  be, 

In  this  the  lordlier  chivalry. 

With  sentiments  such  as  these,  I  propose  the  continued  prosperuy  of  the 
Yorkshire.     Templars  of  Yorkshire.    [Loud  applause.] 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  m 


Frater  J.  S.  Cumberland,  Past  Eminent  Preceptor,  Grand  Aide-de-Camp  Response  of 
and  Provincial  Sub-Marshal,  replied  on  behalf  of  the  Yorkshire  Knights.  He  cLberll'd 
said:  Very  Eminent  Prior,  Eminent  Commander  of  the  Apollo  Commandery  " 
and  Brethren  of  America.  After  the  eloquent  speech  to  which  we  have  all 
hstened  with  so  much  pleasure  I  feel  that  any  words  that  come  from  me  will 
necessarily  fall  feebly  on  your  ears.  Nevertheless,  I  can  assure  you  that  our 
sentiments  at  the  present  moment  are  of  a  most  pleasureable  nature.  We  are 
grateful  to  the  proposer  of  the  toast  for  his  kindly  words  and  hopeful  thoughts, 
and  we  cannot  be  otherwise  than  pleased  at  the  cordial  and  unaffected  way  in 
which  the  toast  has  been  received  by  our  guests.  It  is  a  proud  and  happy  mo- 
ment for  us  to  be  able  to  look  round  this  well  filled  hall,  and  this  merry  and  fra- 
ternal gathering,  and  to  know  that  we  are  assisting  in  the  great  work  of  cement- 
mg  the  friendship,  both  Masonic  and  social,  between  the  Old  and  the  New 
Worlds.  By  us  this  day  will  never  be  forgotten,  and  we  hope  it  may  long 
remain  a  pleasant  memory  with  our  visitors.  They  know  right  well  that  they  are 
welcome  to  the  best  that  we  can  give  them,  and  if  our  numbers  are  few  our 
hearts  are  perhaps  all  the  warmer.  Knights,  on  behalf  of  the  members  of  the 
Order  m  this  country,  I  return  you  our  most  sincere  thanks. 

Eminent  Frater  C.  H.  Benton,  Grand  Master  of  Minnesota,  then  took  the  Em  SirC 
floor,  and  said :    Very  Eminent  Provincial  Prior  and  Brethren  of  the  Temple 
It  IS  with  pleasure  that  I  propose  the  health  of  the  Lord  Mayor  of  York.  Those 
of  us  who  come  from  across  the  Atlantic,  some  five,  and  some  of  us  six  thousand 
miles,  come  from  our  own  native  hearth  to  visit  the  mother  land.  Yesterday 
most  of  us,  for  the  first  time,  set  foot  on  British  soil.    We  were  at  once  filled 
with  wonder  and  delight ;  we  knew,  for  we  had  read  and  been  told,  that  the 
traffic  of  Liverpool  was  immense,  but  we  saw  it  there  with  our  own  eyes  We 
were  delighted  there,  and  while  coming  from  there  we  could  see  with  admirina  „ 
eyes  something  of  the  bee-hives  of  industry  which  make  England  the  center  o"f 
the  wealth  of  the  world.     The  products  of  every  clime  are  brought  here  by 
England's  busy  factors,  and  by  them  wrought  into  that  which  fills  her  coffers 
with  gold.    And  we  saw,  too,  on  our  way  here,  something  of  the  workshops 
and  factories  in  which  this  is  done.    We  were  delighted,  too,  because  we  fourd 
from  the  first  that  which  characterises  this  evening's  entertainment— that  which 
makes  England  the  world's  social  center-the  cordial  warm-hearted  and  gener- 
ous hospitality  and  liberality  of  her  people.    When  we  reached  here  we  had 
already  a  cup  full  of  pleasure;  but  the  Templars  of  York  proffered  us,  and  we 
took,  another,  and  one,  too,  that  was  brim-full  and  running  over,  for  they  gave 
us  the  perfect  freedom  of  this  grand  old  city  of  York,  and  enabled  us  to  see  its 
most  interesting  antiquities,  and  also  to.  realize  the  fact  that  under  the  adminis- 
tration of  Brother  Varney,  and  that  of  such  as  he  who  have  preceded  him  York 
has  always  been,  and  is,  a  city  of  the  present,  as  well  as  the  past-a  city  of 
abundant  resources,  with  profitable  traffic  and  universal  prosperity.    And,  more 
than  that,  it  was  they  who,  with  that  liberal  hospitality  for  which  they  are 
famous-the  fame  of  which  reaches  to  our  own  and  other  distant  lands-enabled 
us  to  here  enjoy  the  present  never  to  be  forgotten  occasion.     Those  brethren  the  toast : 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


The  Lord 
Mayor  of 
York. 


Reply  ot 
the  Lord 
Mayor. 


The  toast : 
The  City  of 
Chicago. 


Response  ot 
Em.  Sir 
Walter  A. 
Stevens. 


who  live  here  know  the  Lord  Mayor  well ;  we,  strangers,  now  know  him  per- 
sonally instead  of  by  representation  only.  Let  us  all,  then,  join  in  drinking 
health,  long  life,  and  prosperity,  with  the  best  of  good  wishes  to  the  Lord 
Mayor  of  York.    [Rapturous  applause.] 

Drank  standing,  with  three  cheers  and  a  tiger  "  for  the  Lord  Mayor. 
The  Lord  Mayor  said  :  Eminent  Prior  and  Knights  of  the  Order  of  the 
Temple :  I  rejoice  to  greet  you  as  members  of  your  old  Historic  Society  withm 
these  ancient  walls.  Doubtless  these  stones  have  felt  the  gallant  tread  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Temple  in  the  days  when  the  Order  occupied  its  position  of 
arandeur  within  these  realms.  But,  although  when  their  vocation  ended  they 
disappeared  in  the  natural  order  of  events,  yet  out  of  their  ashes  has  risen  the 
present  Order,  as  brave,  as  loyal,  and  as  free,  I  make  no  doubt,  as  those  -whose 
bodies  are  dust  and  whose  swords  are  rust."  I  thank  you,  my  brethren,  for 
your  kind  reception  of  the  toast  of  my  health. 

Eminent  Frater  M.  Millington,  Preceptor  of  the  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory, 
proposed  the  toast  of  "  The  City  of  Chicago."  He  said  :  Very  Eminent  Prior, 
my  Lord  Mayor  and  Brethren  :  I  am  sorry  that  this  notable  toast  has  not  fallen 
into  better  hands  than  mine.  But  if  I  cannot  do  it  justice  it  is  not  for  want  of 
any  desire  on  my  part,  but  for  lack  of  ability.  The  City  of  Chicago  has  been 
the  -world's  wonder.  She  has  passed  through  the  fire  of  tribulation  and  destruc- 
tion but  phoenix-like  has  arisen  from  her  ashes  more  beautiful  than  ever,  and  a 
monument  to  all  time  of  what  indomitable  energy  and  -undaunted  pluck  may 
achieve  when  properly  directed.  We  in  York  are  but  as  pigmies  in  comparison 
with  our  brother  financiers  of  the  great  West,  but  we  greet  them  on  the  level 
and  rejoice  to  meet  them  as  the  guests  of  Yorkshire  on  this  auspicious  occasion. 

rCheers.]  n 

Eminent  Frater  W.  A.  Stevens,  Past  Eminent  Preceptor,  of  Apollo  Com- 
mandery,  rose  to  respond.    He  said  :    Very  Eminent  Provincial  Prior,  Emi- 
nent Prior  of  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory,  and  my  Lord  Mayor  and  Brethren  :  I 
could  but  wish  some  one  more  fitted  to  respond  to  the  sentiment-"  The  City  of 
Chicaao"-should  have  been  selected,  one  who  could  have  done  justice  to  the 
city  of  the  great  Northwest  of  America-a  city  located  on  the  west  side  of  Lake 
Michigan,  the  breadth  of  whose  waters  cover  more  territory  than  the  Kingdom 
of  England.    Such  wondrous  growth  as  Chicago  has  had  was  never  known  in 
the  past  ages  of  the  world's  history.     While  you,  Brother  Knights  of  York, 
reckon  the  foundation  of  your  city  by  hundreds  of  years,  Chicago  can  only  count 
its  existence  by  tens  of  years-a  baby  in  the  woods  as  it  were.    Fifty  years  ago, 
it  was  but  a  small  village,  scarcely  numbering  a  population  of  500  to-day  its 
inhabitants  number  more  than  600,000!    The  first  Christian  Church  that  was 
there  established  has  just  celebrated  its  50th  anniversary-a  church  which  set 
up  the  Banner  of  the  Cross  of  which  we  are  the  sworn  defenders-and  now 
numbers  among  its  members  some  of  the  wealthiest  men  of  our  glorious  city  ; 
whose  charities  (one  of  the  tenets  of  our  Order)  are  now  extended  over  the  globe 
and  who  are  helping  to  establish  the  religion  of  Him  who  is  the  Essence  of  the 
teachinas  of  our  Order.  Still  it  is  but  an  example  of  many  other  churches  whose 


NO.   I,   KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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years  are  not  numbered  by  half  a  century.     Chicago  eleven  years  ago  was  Response 

devasted  in  a  night.  The  fiery  element  swept  over  it,  and  in  the  short  space  of  continued. 

twenty-four  hours  time,  a  distance  of  two  miles  wide  and  seven  long,  through 

the  business  and  best  residence  portion  of  our  city,  was  laid  in  ashes.  It  was^'a 

night  which  caused  desolation,  want  and  suffering ;  greater  than  ever  before 

known.    The  whole  world's  heart  throbbed  with  sympathy,  and  responded  to 

its  relief,  with  Christian  love  and  material  sustenance.    Yet  with  this  vast  ruin 

of  a  day— a  little  over  eleven  years  ago— I  could  hardly  find  any  ruins  now 

caused  by  that  night's  devastation  that  I  could  point  out  to  you  as  such,  while 

we  have  come  thousand  of  miles  to  see  ruins  which  are  counted  old  by  their 

hundreds  of  years,  and  to  view  the  halls  where  our  forefathers  of  the  Order  of 

the  Temple  assembled.    The  youngest  gives  homage  to  the  oldest !    This  old 

City  of  York  was  the  Keystone  and  Point  in  ancient  times  for  those  who  went  ' 

out  to  war  against  those  beyond ;  so  Chicago  is  the  Keystone  and  commercial 

center  to  the  great  Northwest,  with  thousands  of  miles  of  railroads  centering  there 

and  teeming  with  a  commerce  which  feeds  millions.    Her  grain  houses,  and 

meat  packing  houses,  and  necessary  supplies  of  merchandise  for  the  millions, 

are  substitutes  for  the  stone  walls  and  battlements  once  needed  by  this  City  of 

York  when  it  was  young  in  years,  and  long  before  Columbus  discovered  the 

continent  of  America. 

We  recognize  with  a  thankful  heart  and  praise  to  a  Supreme  Ruler,  that,  by 
the  true  influence  and  teachings  of  His  Son,  we  are  permitted  to  gather  from 
such  distant  parts  of  the  globe,  and  in  the  friendship  of  our  fraternal  bondgreet 
each  other  as  brothers,  under  the  roof  of  a  hall  whose  years  of  existence  exceed 
those  of  the  country  from  which  we  come.  Although  generations  have-  passed 
away  and  no  personal  contact  has  ever  been  felt  between  your  fathers  and  our 
fathers,  yet  by  that  chain  of  union  before  mentioned,  and  the  traditions  passed 
down  by  them  from  one  generation  to  another,  we  have  met  and  greeted  each 
other  as  right  old  time  friends  and  companions  in  the  warfare  against  igno- 
ranee,  superstition  and  oppression,  under  the  Banner  of  Immanuel !  Knights  of 
York,  I  thank  you  for  this  fraternal  recognition,  and  should  vou  ever  visit  the 
United  States  of  America— and  we  all  hope  you  will  at  no  dis'tant  day— wewill 
extend  to  you  a  hearty  welcome;  and  when  you  start,  do  not  stop  in  Philadel- 
phia, Boston,  or  Alleghany  City,  but  come  straight  to  Chicago  before  you  get 
too  full  of  our  glorious  country,  and  there  receive  cordial  receptions  from  our 
valorous  Knights  ;  and  in  that  city  whose  growth  is  so  marvelous,  we  will  make 
our  halls  resound  with  welcome  at  your  coming.    [Loud  applause.] 

The  final  toast  was  drank  to  the  health  of  all  Knights  of  the  Order  whereso- 
ever scattered,  and  the  brilliant  assembly  then  separated.  Final  toast. 

In  the  morning  the  American  visitors  left  by  special  train  for  London,  and 
received  farewell  good  wishes  on  the  platform  from  a  party  of  the  York  Knights. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANPERY, 


CHAPTER  XIV. 


A.   D.   1883.  CONTINUED. 


London 


Separate 
parties. 


The 

Commandery 
sail  tor  home. 


Knightly- 
honors  at 
Chicago. 


Rt.  Em. 
Sir  Gurney's 
address  of 
welcome. 


Reply  of 
Em.  Sir 
Cassette. 


The  visit  to  London  with  its  innumerable  places  of  interest  was  enjoyable, 
and  the  trip  on  the  continent  was  particularly  interesting  and  instructive. 

The  Commandery  was  together  until  it  reached  London,  when  it  separated 
and  the  Sir  Knights  went  in  different  directions  as  indicated  by  the  various  itmer- 
aries  A  large  number,  however,  had  decided  to  take  the  longest  tour  and 
visited  many  of  the  places  of  interest  in  England,  Belgium,  France  and  Switzer- 

land,  . 

The  Commandery  returned  by  the  steamship  City  of  Rome,  sailmg  from 
Liverpool  on  September  3d,  1883.  The  passage  home  was  made  in  safety,  and 
Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  K.  T.  arrived  in  Chicago  September  17th,  1883; 
all  of  those  who  left  Chicago  July  12th,  having  made  the  tour  extendmg 
over  many  thousands  of  miles  without  the  loss  of  a  single  member  of  the  party. 

Apollo  Commandery  was  received  with  Knightly  honors  on  its  arrival  m 
Chicago,  being  met  by  a  large  delegation  of  Sir  Knights  from  the  various  Com- 
manderies  and  escorted  to  the  Asylum  where  the  pilgrim  Sir  Knights  were 
welcomed,  at  the  request  of  Sir.  H.  S.  Tiffany,  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  by 
Right  Eminent  Sir  T.  T.  Gurney,  Past  Eminent  Commander  of  Apollo,  on 
behalf  of  the  Templars  of  Chicago.  In  his  remarks  he  referred  to  the  trip, 
its  many  pleasant  incidents  and  the  general  satisfaction  and  pleasure  felt  by  the 
Templars  of  the  Western  World  at  the  reception  received  by  Apollo  Comman- 
dery at  York  and  other  places,  at  the  hands  of  the  Praters  of  the  Old  World, 
and  on  behalf  of  the  Templars  of  Chicago  he  welcomed  the  Commandery  home 

^^Eminent  Sir  N  T.  Cassette  then  responded,  thanking  his  Fraters  for  the  wel- 
come given  his  command.  He  gave  also  numerous  incidents  connected  with 
the  trip,  and  said  it  was  the  largest  Masonic  party  which  ever  crossed  the 
ocean  and  considering  the  time  consumed  and  the  cost,  was  a  remarkable  success 
None'went  who  were  not  glad  they  had  gone.  The  party  was  a  congenial 
one  and  Apollo  Commandery  abroad  did  its  best  to  uphold  the  great  name  she 
bears-the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois,  of  which  she  is  a  subordinate,  and 
the  Templary  of  America.  Friendships  were  formed  which  will  last  while  life 
lasts,  and  memory  will  never  fail  to  recall  joyous  scenes,  kind  faces,  and  gen- 
erous  hearts  in  foreign  lands.  ,  ^ 

Apollo  quartette  furnished  the  music,  and  after  other  speeches  had  been  made 
and  a  hearty  welcome  given,  the  Pilgrims  separated  and  returned  to  their  homes 
to  be  again  welcomed  by  their  families  and  friends. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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September  i8th,  1883,  the  941st  Stated  Conclave  was  convened  and  Apollo  The  Charter 
Commandery  declared  opened  by  Sir  Generalissimo  H.  S.  Tiffany,  when,  by 
his  order,  an  escort  was  detailed,  composed  of  Sirs  John  G.  Sprague,  Charles 
L.  Pratt,  Charles  A.  Burgess,  Henry  F.  Comstock,  William  W.  Ramsey,  John 
Hoggins,  Harris  A.  Wheeler,  and  Luther  C.  Young,  who,  under  command  of 
the  Senior  Warden,  retired  to  the  parlor,  from  whence  they  escorted  Eminent 
Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette  into  the  Asylum,  where  he  was  received  by  Sir  Tiffany. 
^'  Who  in  a  few  well-chosen  remarks  welcomed  him  home  again  and  ^  * 
returned  the  charter  of  Apollo  Commandery,"  which  had  been  taken  from  the 
Asylum  by  Eminent  Commander  Cassette,  and  deposited  elsewhere  for  safe 
keeping  during  the  absence  of  the  Commandery  in  Europe,  and  of  which  Sir 
Generalissimo  H.  S.  Tiffany  had  been  the  custodian. 

The  quartette  then  sang  "  Home  Again,"  after  which  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  The  point  of 
responded  to  the  remarks  of  Sir  Tiffany  in  a  fraternal  manner,  stating  that  he  sword, 
desired  nothing  from  the  Commandery  but  the  good-will  and  esteem  of  the  Sir 
Knights  ;  and  after  causing  the  Captain  General  to  form  the  lines,  he  requested 
every  Sir  Knight  of  Apollo  Commandery  present  to  make  with  him  a  promise 
of  loyalty  to  the  Commandery ;  of  good  will  towards  each  other,  and  of  submis- 
sion to  the  will  of  the  majority,  which  was  accordingly  done  by  every  member 
present  at  the  point  of  the  sword. 

The  Eminent  Commander  then  gave  his  thanks  to  Sir  Generalissimo  Tiffany  Thanks, 
and  Sir  David  Ray  Crego,  Captain  General,  for  their  support  and  loyalty. 

Sir  Henry  S.  Tiffany  then  resumed  his  station  as  Generalissimo,  and  the  Emi- 
nent Commander  re-assumed  the  duties  of  his  office. 

At  this  Conclave  it  was  also  determined  to  hold  a  reunion  of  the  Comman-  Re_union. 
dery  Thursday  evening,  September  20th,  and  Sirs  James  Hitchcock,  Charles  O. 
Hall,  John  G.  Sprague,  Henry  S.  Tiffany,  and  David  R.  Crego  were  appointed 
a  Committee  of  Arrangements. 

The  reunion  held  on  the  evening  of  the  date  designated,  was  calculated  to 
cement  the  friendships  between  the  Sir  Knights,  and  was  an  event  which  will 
be  long  remembered. 

At  this  941st  Stated  Conclave  the  Commandery  also  ratified  the  action  of  the 
Generalissimo  in  tendering  an  escort  to  Oriental  Consistory  S.-.  P.-.  R.-.  S.-. 
32°,  upon  the  occasion  of  their  departure  for  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  September  24th ; 
proffered  before  the  return  of  the  Eminent  Commander. 

The  Dispensation  of  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  to  appear  equipped 

on  the  streets  to  extend  such  courtesy  having  been  received,  the  Commandery, 

preceded  by  the  Elgin  Military  Band,  escorted  the  Consistory  from  its  rendez-  ^ 

Escort  to 

vous,  corner  of  Halsted  and  Randolph  streets  to  the  Union  Depot  on  Canal  Oriental 
street,  where,  both  Commands  having  been  formed  facing  each  other.  Eminent 
Sir  and  Illustrious  Commander-in-Chief  Henry  A.  Pond,  made  some  very  com- 
plimentary remarks,  which  were  responded  to,  on  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery, 
by  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette. 

The  Commandery  then  returned  to  its  Asylum,  where  the  Sir  Knights  enjoyed 
an  hour  together  listening  to  the  sweet  music  discoursed  by  the  band. 


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Chicago  & 
Xorih- 
Western 
Railway. 


Speech  of 
Very  Em. 
Sir  Tew. 


Resolutions 
of  thanks : 


To  Oriental 
Consistory. 


To  Michigan 
Central 
Railroad. 


To 

Palestine 
Commandery. 


At  the  942d  Stated  Conclave,  held  October  2i,  the  Chicago  and  Northwestern 
Railroad  Company  were  duly  thanked  for  sending  a  special  engme  to  br.ng  the 
Commandery  back  from  Rose  Hill  Cemetery  in  advance  of  any  regular  tra.n 
on  the  occasion  of  the  funeral  of  the  late  Sir  Jacob  R  Fowler.  Th.s  was  only 
another  one  of  many  acts  of  kindness  received  by  Apollo  Commandery  at  the 
hands  of  the  officers  of  this  Great  Railroad  Company. 

At  the  943d  Stated  Conclave,  held  October  l6th,  .883,  tt  was  on  mot.on  voted 
that  the  speech  of  Very  Eminent  Sir  T.  W.  Tew,  Provincia  °' 1°^^ 

England,  which  was  delivered  upon  the  occasion  of  the  we  come  to  Apo  o 
Commandery  in  the  Provincial  Priory  of  North  and  East  Yorksh.re,  should  be 
printed  upon  illuminated  card-board,  .3x24,  be  framed,  and  hung  -'P^  Ae  wall 
L  the  parlor  of  the  Commandery,  and  Very  Eminent  St.s  T.  B.  ^hyt  head 
T  W  Tew  J  S  Cumberland,  and  Sir  S.  iMiddleton  were  unanimously  elected 
honorary  members  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  I,  Knights  Templar. 

At  this  Conclave,  also,  resolutions  of  thanks  were  adopted,  expressive  of  the 
obligations  of  the  Commandery  towards  those  named  therein,  for  their  merito- 
rious conduct  in  behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery  on  the  occasion  prior,  during 
and  succeeding  its  pilgrimage  to  Europe.  „i,i^h 
The  resolutions  were  in  each  case  preceded  by  a  lengthy  preamble,  in  which 
the  particular  services  rendered  were  noted  in  detail,  but  we  esteem^  that  the 
purposes  of  this  history  will  be  subserved  by  quoting  the  resolutions  on  y  = 

Relative  to  the  escort  furnished  by  Oriental  Consistory  July  12th  from  the 
Asylum  to  the  depot : 

by  the  Recorder,  be  for^varded  to  Oriental  Consistory  b.  .P.  .K.  .b.  .  32  ,  si 

Relative  to  the  excellent  manner  in  which  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad  and 
Waaner  Sleeping  Car  Company  provided  accommodations  : 

General  Passenger  Agent,  for  their  untiring  zeal  in  our  behalf. 

Relative  to  the  escort  of  Palestine  Commandery  No.  18,  ^-T.  of  New  York 
City,  from  the  depot  to  the  hotel,  and  from  thence  to  the  steamship  City  of  Rome. 
July  14th,  1883  : 

7?     /        That  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i,  Knights  Templar,  recognizing 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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passed  with  them  and  their  knightly  acts  and  deeds,  and  their  pilgrimage  to  New  York  as  one 

of  the  pleasantest  in  which  they  have  ever  participated,  and  be  it 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  of  record  on  the  Records  of  this  Commandery,  and 
a  copy  thereof  be  engrossed  on  parchment,-  and  having  been  duly  signed  by  the  Eminent  Com- 
mander, and  attested  by  the  Recorder  under  seal,  be  forwarded  to  Palestine  Commandery  No.  i8, 

Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  New  York  City. 

Relative  to  the  manner  in  which  E.  M.  Jenkins,  American  and  European 
Tourist  Agent  of  New  York  City,  carried  out  his  contract  in  conducting  the 
Commandery  in  accordance  with  the  Itineraries: 

Resolved,  That  the  preambles  heretofore  read  be  sent  Mr.  Jenkins  as  the  sense  of  this  Com-  To  Sir  E  M 
mandery,  and  be  it  further  Jenkins. 

Resolved,  That  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i,  Knights  Templar,  feeling  under  great  obligations 
to  him  for  his  zeal  and  interest  in  our  behalf,  as  well  as  for  the  zeal  and  interest  of  his  son,  J.  M. 
Jenkins,  of  124  High  Holborn  street,  London,  who  has  charge  of  his  business  there,  and  to  his  gen- 
tlemanly conductors,  we  hereby  express  our  thanks  and  appreciation  for  the  business  tact  displayed 
and  the  masterly  manner  in  which  our  pilgrimage  was  conducted  from  its  commencement  to  its 
close. 

Relative  to  the  very  hospitable  and  courteous  treatment  of  the  Commandery 
ty  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory  at  York,  England,  July  24th  and  25th: 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  Apolio  Commandery  are  due  to  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory,  and  to  To  Ancient 
Eminent  Sir  T.  B.  "Whytehead,  who  made  our  visit  possible,  and  to  Eminent  Sirs  J.  Cumberland  Ebor 
and  S.  Middleton,  who  exerted  themselves  to  make  our  visit  pleasurable,  with  the  expressions  of  Preceptory. 
a  vote  that  we  may  have  the  pleasureof  meeting  them  all  some  time  at  our  home  in  Chicago,  United 
States  of  America  ;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  Apollo  Commandery  hereby  asks  Ebor  Preceptory  to  convey  its  thanks  to  the 
Very  Eminent  Provincial  Prior,  and  Very  Eminent  Sir  T.  W.  Tew,  who  represented  him  when 
the  Provincial  Priory  opened  in  the  Asylur-  of  Ebor  Preceptory  in  the  City  of  York,  for  the 
distinguished  courtesies  received  at  their  hands. 

At  a  subsequent  Conclave  the  following  resolutions  were  passed,  relative  to 
the  services  of  Sir  Doctor  De  Laskie  Miller,  as  Chief  of  the  Medical  staff: 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i,  Knights  To  Sir  Dr 
Templar,  be  and  they  are  hereby  tendered  to  Sir  Knight  Doctor  DeLaskie  Miller  for  his  uniform  DeLaskie 
Icindness  and  courtesy,  as  well  as  his  medical  attendance  upon  the  sick  and  afflicted  ones  who  were  filler, 
of  the  party,  and  in  addition,  we  desire  to  express  our  appreciation  of  his  character,  both  as  a 
friend  and  Sir  Knight,  as  one  being  worthy  of  imitation,  and  be  it 

Resolved,  That  these  Resolutions  be  spread  of  record  on  the  Records  of  this  Commandery,  and 
a  copy  thereof,  under  seal  of  this  Commandery,  signed  by  the  Eminent  Commander  and  attested 
by  the  Recorder,  be  forwarded  to  Sir  Knight  DeLaskie  Miller,  M.  D.,  at  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Relative  to  the  services  of  Sir  Captain  General  David  Ray  Crego  while  in 
command  of  the  escort  of  Apollo  Sir  Knights  and  Apollo  Commandery  in  New 
York  City : 

Resolved,  That  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  1,  Knights  Templar,  recognizing  <po  ^ir 
these  Knightly  courtesies  and  in  order  to  show  their  appreciation  of  the  labors  of  its  past  Captain  Cap"t.  Gen'l 
General,  do  hereby  express  their  thanks  to  Sir  Knight  David  Ray  Crego  for  his  uniform  kindness  David  R. 
and  courtesies  to  them  in  the  past,  and  will  ever  remember  our  intercourse  with  him,  both  as  a 
man  and  brother  Templar  with  pleasure,  and  we  trust  that  life's  journey  to  him  may  be  even  more 
pleasant  than  was  this  never  to  be  forgotten  Pilgrimage  to  New  York. 

Resolved,  That  these  Resolutions  be  spread  on  the  Records  of  this  Commandery,  and  a  copy 
thereof,  under  seal,  signed  by  the  Eminent  Commander  and  attested  by  the  Recorder,  be 
forwarded  to  Sir  Knight  David  Ray  Crego,  at  Chicago,  Illinois. 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


To  Sir 

H.  D.  Field. 


Thanks  from 
Chevalier 
Bayard 
Commandery. 


Honorary 
members. 


Thirty-eighth 
Annual. 


Report  of 
Eminent 
Commander 
Gassette. 


Treasurer's 
and 

Recorder's 
reports. 


And  relative  to  the  work  done  by  Sir  Henry  D.  Field  as  Captain  General  of 
Apollo  Commandery  on  board  ship  and  while  in  Europe  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  desiring  to  publicly  show  their  appre- 
ciation of  the  courtesies  extended  by  Sir  Knight  Henry  D.  Field,  do  hereby  express  their  thanks- 
to  him,  and  couple  with  it  a  hope  that  the  future  may  be  to  him  one  full  of  happiness  and  pleasure, 
and  assure  him  that  the  Sir  Knights  of  this  Command  will  ever  remember  his  many  acts  of  kind- 
ness, and  the  true  Templar  spirit  manifested  by  him  on  all  occasions,  as  emanatmg  from  one  who 
is  a  Templar  in  deeds  as  well  as  name. 

Resolved,  That  these  Resolutions  be  spread  of  record  on  the  Records  of  this  Commandery,  and 
a  copy  thereof  under  seal,  and  signed  by  the  Eminent  Commander  and  attested  by  the  Recorder, 
be  forwarded  to  Sir  Knight  Henry  D.  Field,  at  Chicago,  Illinois  : 

At  the  same  Conclave  a  preamble  and  resolutions  were  received  from  Chev- 
alier Bayard  Commandery  expressing  an  appreciation  of  the  knightly  courtesy 
of  Sir  Generalissimo  H.  S.  Tiffany,  and  the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery,, 
at  the  time  Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery  escorted  St.  Bernard  Commandery  to 
the  depot  prior  to  their  departure  for  California,  before  referred  to  herein, 
averring  That  actions  like  this  tend  to  promote  a  closer  bond  of  union  between 
Templar  bodies  and  cultivate  the  true  knightly  spirit." 

At  the  945th  Stated  Conclave,  held  November  20th,  1883,  the  following  Sir 
Knights  of  Ancient  Ebor  Preceptory  of  York,  England,  were  unanimously 
elected  honorary  members  of  Apollo  Commandery,  to-wit :  Eminent  Sir 
William  Lawton,  Sir  G.  Simpson,  Sir  James  Meek,  Knight,  Honorable  William 
T.  Orde-Powlett,  M.  Millington  and  J.  W.  Woodall. 

The  946th  and  38th  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Commandery  was  held  Decem- 
ber 4th,  1883,  at  7:30  o'clock,  with  the  officers  and  two  hundred  and  twelve  Sir 
Knights  present. 

The  Eminent  Commander  reported  that  nearly  ten  years  before  the  Com- 
mandery had  elected  him  as  Prelate,  since  which  time,  in  that  office,  the  office  of 
Generalissimo  and  Eminent  Commander— lacking  a  year— he  had  been  con- 
tinuously in  office,  and  that  he  had  successively  served  the  Commandery  during 
the  decade  named;  that  seven  years  ago  he  was  first  elected  Eminent  Commander; 
that  he  on  this  night  made  his  sixth  annual  report ;  that  notwithstanding  more 
had  been  expended  in  charity  than  for  several  years,  and  the  funeral  expenses 
had  been  greater,  the  Charity  Fund  had  increased  ;  that  the  General  Treasury 
was  greater,  and  that  the  grand  total  of  the  funds,  in  cash,  in  the  possession  of 
the  Commandery,  was  largely  in  excess  of  what  it  was  at  the  last  annual  of  the 
Commandery;  that  it  had  been  his  conscientious  endeavor  during  the  year  to 
enhance  the  best  interests  of  the  Commandery,  and  try  and  unify  its  varied 
elements  by  a  friendly  and  social  intercourse. 

The  Treasurer  reported  that  there  was  ^3,768.52  in  cash  on  hand  in  the  various 
funds  of  the  Commandery,  and  the  Recorder  reported  that  forty-one  Conclaves 
had  been  held,  with  an  average  attendance  of  fifty-five;  that  thirty-three  had 
received  the  Orders;  that  there  was  owing  the  Commandery  ^3,106.09  on 
account  of  dues,  and  ^204.68  for  rents;  that  there  was  a  total  of  cash  and 
earned  but  uncollected  cash  assets  of  ^7,078.29;  that  there  was  accrued  but 
not  due  rent  owing  the  American  Express  Company  amounting  to  ^500,  and  that 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Sir  Henry  S. 


elected 
Eminent 
Commander, 


the  total  financial  gain  over  the  previous  year  of  cash  and  uncollected  assets 
was  ;^3, 053.31.  Vlf^I 

On  the  nomination  of  Eminent  Sir  Amos  Grannis,  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany 
was  elected  Eminent  Commander. 

After  the  declaration  of  Sir  Tiffany's  election,  Sir  James  B.  Bradwell,  on 
behalf  of  Apollo  Commandery  presented  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  with  "a.  beau- 
tifully engrossed  set  of  resolutions,  expressing  ^  *  ^  appreciation  ^^f^^^^l'^J'^ 
for  his  services"  in  conducting  the  European  Pilgrimage;  which  had  been 
adopted  by  the  Commandery  on  the  steamship  City  of  Rome,  off  the  American 
coast,  Long.,  65-30;  Lat.,  41-36;  September  12th,  i883,to-wit: 

********** 

Resolved^  That  we  recognize  the  fact  that  the  comfort,  the  enjoyment,  and  perfect  harmony  of 
the  entire  party  has  been  largely  due  to  the  wisdom  of  his  plans,  the  courtesy  of  his  bearing,  and 
the  kindly  interest  he  has  taken  in  the  welfare  of  every  one  under  his  command. 

Resolved,  That  we  avow  our  indebtedness  to  him  for  all  that  he  has  done,  knowing  as  we  do 
that  his  superintendence  of  so  large  a  company,  must  have  brought  with  it  anxieties  and  cares  of 
no  insignificant  kind,  and  must  at  times  have  detracted  from  his  own  enjoyment. 

Resolved,  That  accepting  his  Knightly  services  in  the  Knightly  spirit  in  which  they  have  been 
given,  we  would  express  our  admiration  of  his  character  as  a  man  and  a  Templar,  and  assure  him 
of  our  best  wishes  and  prayers  for  his  happiness  and  prosperity. 

*******  *** 

The  engrossed  copy  of  the  resolutions  was  signed  by  all  who  made  the 

pilgrimage. 

The  election  of  officers  having  taken  place,  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette, 
acting  as  Grand  Commander,  appointed  Sir  DeWitt  C.  Cregier  as  Grand  Mar-  gm^  xlffany 
shal,  and  installed  Eminent  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany  as  Eminent  Commander,  installed, 
when  he  retired  and  Eminent  Sir  Tiffany  duly  installed  the  rest  of  the  elected 
and  appointed  officers. 


EMINENT  SIR  KNIGHT  NORMAN  T.  CASSETTE. 
By  Theodore  T.  Gurney,  P.  G.  C. 

December,  1877,  when  Eminent  Sir  Cassette  was  placed  in  command,  was  Eminent  Sir 
one  of  the  most  interesting  periods  in  the  history  of  Apollo  Commandery.  Cassette. 

It  was  an  attempt  of  no  mean  proportions  to  emulate  the  spirit  and  industry  of  his 
predecessors;  nevertheless,  he  entered  upon  his  labors  with  a  zeal  and  sound 
judgment  so  phenomenal  in  their  principal  characteristics,  that  he  at  once 
secured  the  co-operation  of  his  fraters;  and  with  a  result  that  is  without  parallel 
in  the  history  of  any  Commandery,  Chapter  or  Lodge  of  which  we  have  any 
knowledge.  Our  distinguished  Past  Commander  received  a  collegiate  educa- 
tion; is  a  graduate  of  the  Law  Department  of  the  University  of  Chicago  (now 
the  Union  College  of  Law),  and  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  his  profession 
— law — in  1866.  Like  all  others  of  ardent  and  generous  disposition,  he  sought 
the  Lodge,  and  in  June,  1869,  was  created  a  Templar  in  Apollo  Commandery, 
and  under  the  administration  of  the  writer.  During  the  preliminary  efforts  to 
rid  the  Commandery  of  incessant  draffs  upon  its  Treasury,  he  exhibited  so 
much  ability  and  su-ccessful  determination,  that  he  was  with  singular  and  grati- 


120  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Elected  fying  unanimity  called  to  the  prelacy  of  the  body,  June,  1874.  In  this  position 
he  served  two  terms;  was  then  elected  Generalissimo  and  served  one  year,  and 
in  December,  1877,  was  elected  Commander  in  the  absence  of  a  nomination.  In 
1878  he  was  re-elected,  but  three  dissenting  votes  appearing.  He  succeeded 
himself  in  1879  and  1880,  and  again  was  placed  in  command  for  the  years  1882 
and  1883,  closing  one  of  the  most  remarkable  and  successful  official  careers 
known  to  knighthood. 

It  is  impossible  to  estimate  the  labors  of  Sir  Knight  Cassette  by  any  measure- 
ment that  will  compass  the  toil,  money  and  perplexities  incident  to  his  ardor 

Persistency,  and  unflagging  persistency  ;  and  although  other  brilliant  administrations  mer- 
ited the  kindly  commendations  of  the  Commandery,  still  the  administration  of 
our  Frater  was  so  remarkable  in  material  results,  that  it  excited  admiration 
wherever  known. 

Inside  His  administration  during  the  year  1880,  in  connection  with  the  Great 

Tnenniaf*^^  Triennial  Conclave,  nearly  cost  him  his  life.  The  inside  history  of  that  affair 
will  never,  we  hope,  be  written.  It  never  should  be  because  of  the  injury  it 
would  work  to  others  !  Sir  Knight  Cassette  has  often  said  to  the  writer,  that  he 
would  much  rather  endure  vilification  and  misrepresentation,  than  to  perpetuate 
a  controversy  relative  thereto  that  would  be  of  no  advantage  in  any  direction 
save  to  injure  Templarism  and  place  certain,  at  one  time,  critics,  in  an  inde- 
fensible position.  We  conclude  this  brief  sketch  with  quotations  from  a  speech 
prepared,  by  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  Vincent  L.  Hurlbut,  for  delivery  on  the 
night  of  the  Grand  Reception  at  the  Exposition  Building,  together  with  resolu- 
tions adopted  by  Commandery  and  Grand  Commandery,  that  will  give  the  reader 
a  correct  estimate  of  Eminent  Sir  Knight  Cassette's  labors  on  that  occasion. 

We  also  include  closing  remarks  from  his  annual  reports  while  in  command 
of  our  Commandery,  exemplifying  as  they  do  his  good-hearted  generosity. 

At  the  close  of  1877  : 

"  That  the  aflfairs  of  the  Commandery  for  the  current  year  have  been  conducted  without  error 
we  do  not  claim,  but  what  has  been  done,  has  been  conscientiously  done.  I  have  nothing  in  my 
heart  for  all  of  you  Sir  Knights  but  esteem,  and  if  I  have  said  or  done  anything  which  has 
wounded  the  feelings  of  any  one,  it  has  been  said  or  done  inadvertently,  and  I  sincerely  hope  that 
it  may  be  forgiven  and  forgotten." 

At  the  close  of  1878  : 

"  If  I  have  ever  uttered  a  harsh  word  I  ask  that  it  may  be  forgotten  and  that  my  faults  and 
errors  may  be  swallowed  up  in  the  bosom  of  the  Great  Fraternity.  *  *  *  l  have  tried  to  gain 
your  friendship  by  serving  you  honestly,  faithfully  and  unselfishly,  and  when  my  successor  is 
vested  with  the  power  with  which  I  have  been  clothed,  I  hope  that  I  shall  not  seem  to  have  been 
other  than  a  conscientious  Commander.  I  have  tried  to  merit  your  friendship  ;  if  I  have  failed  to 
gain  it,  may  you  lavish  upon  my  successor  what  you  have  refused  to  give  me.  May  God  bless 
you  all." 

At  the  close  of  1880  : 

"  May  the  coming  years  sit  lightly  on  you  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  !  I  hope  that 
I  have  not  failed  to  earn  your  esteem,  and  sincerely  trust  that  1  have  merited  the  warm  friendship 
which  has  been  given  to  me  without  stint  by  so  many  true-hearted  Praters^  and  as  the  years  go 
by,  I  hope  to  be  consoled  by  the  thought  that  all  will  believe  me  to  have  been  a  conscientious 
Commander  while  serving  this  Commandery." 


Close  of 
Annual 
Reports. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


121 


At  the  close  of  1882: 

"  Not  a  single  act  of  kindness  done  the  Eminent  Commander  will  ever  be  forgotten  by  him,  but 
the  cognizance  of  them  will  be  recorded  among  the  precious  and  priceless  memories  of  the  past." 

At  the  close  of  1883  : 
I    "  Your  present  Commander    *       *    declares  in  truth  and  soberness  that  he  entertains  no  feel- 
ings of  enmity  or  ill-will  towards  a  being  on  earth  that  he  would  not  freely  reconcile  should  he 
find  in  him  or  them  a  corresponding  disposition,  and    *    *    bids  you  farewell  as  an  officer." 

*By  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  Vincent  L.  Hurlbut :  Speech  of 

"  The  Grand  Encampment  fully  appreciates  and  gratefully  acknowledges  the  hearty  welcome  Most 
extended  to  her  by  the  Grand  and  Subordinate  Officers  and  the  Sir  Knights  of  this  jurisdiction.  ^^^^^^ 
She  desires  to  express  not  only  her  perfect  satisfaction  with  all  the  preparations  for  this  Triennial  Master. 
Conclave  on  the  part  of  the  Fraters  of  this  great  city,  but  her  surprise  at  the  completeness  and 
vastness  of  these  preparations,  so  far  outrivaling  anything  before  known  in  her  history.  Speaking 
in  her  behalf,  I  shall  be  pardoned  if  I  feel  and  express  a  just  pride  that  all  this  preparation,  so  vast 
in  outline  and  so  complete  in  detail ,  has  been  the  work  of  the  Fraters  of  the  city  I  am  more  proud 
than  ever  to  call  my  home — Fraters  with  whom  I  have  been  in  daily  intercourse  for  years.  The 
three  Commanderies  of  this  city,  indorsed  and  sustained  by  the  Grand  Commandery  of  the  State, 
have  wrought  with  one  will,  one  purpose,  and  the  results  we  witness.  It  is  quite  impossible  for 
one  outside  to  have  an  adequate  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  the  work  placed  in  their  hands.  Two 
years  of  unremitting  toil  have  wrought  the  magnificent  results  we  see,  results  of  which  all  are 
proud,  results  for  which  they  have  earned  the  thanks  of  the  Grand  Encampment  and  the  plaudits 
of  the  whole  Order.  Nor  must  we  forget  the  cordial  co-operation  of  the  citizens  of  Chicago,  with- 
out whose  liberal  aid  the  magnificent  dream  of  the  Triennial  Committee  could  never  have  become 
the  proud  reality  we  witness.  The  large  contributions  made  by  the  three  Commanderies  here, 
were  supplemented  by  equally  generous  gifts  from  our  citizens,  and  thus  all  that  was  desirable  in  ' 
conception  has  been  made  actual  in  achievement.  In  1859,  twenty-one  years  ago,  the  Grand 
Encampment  held  its  Fourteenth  Triennial  Conclave  in  Chicago,  and  those  of  us  who  helped  to 
form  that  Conclave  are  inevitably  led  to  contrast  the  conditions  then  with  those  that  surround  us 
to-day.  The  growth  of  this  great  city  has  hardly  been  more  marked  and  wonderful  than  the  growth 
of  Knight  Templarism  in  the  United  States.  Then,  a  comparatively  small  band  of  loyal  Knights, 
welcomed  without  parade  by  the  handful  of  Fraters  here,  doing  their  work  quietly  in  an  unpre- 
tending hall,  and  unheeded,  with  little  public  recognition ;  to-day,  this  large  body  of  Legislators, 
accompanied  by  enthusiastic  thousands,  welcomed  with  royal  splendor  to  this  royal  city  ablaze 
with  decorations,  the  lengthening  miles  of  our  hosts,  with  waving  banners  and  glad  bursts  of 
music,  cheered  by  loud  huzzas  from  the  living  throng  that  line  our  way,  marching  under  arches  of 
triumph  to  the  novel  but  commodious  and  appropriate  hall  of  legislation  built  for  this  Conclave. 
Then  we  toiled  modestly  and  in  hope,  but  never  venturing  a  presumption  or  a  dream  so  wild  as 
this  amazing  reality.  In  tkzs  temple,  erected  and  dedicated  to  the  genius  of  American  industry 
and  art  and  invention,  it  is  fitting  that  we  meet,  as  the  representatives  of  the  best  thought  and 
purpose  of  our  American  progress  and  civilization.  Here,  where  toil  is  honored,  and  art  and 
invention  receive  due  homage  ;  here,  where  we  place  a  starry  crown  on  the  royal  brow  of  achieve- 
ment, we  lift  with  no  alien  hand  our  sacred  banners,  bearing  the  sign  of  the  world's  redempti'on 
and  triumph,  the  sign  of  that  divine  incarnation  which  has  created  all  our  eyes  behold  of  beauty 
and  worth  and  gracious  ministry ;  all  for  which  the  prophetic  heart  and  hand  and  brain  of  the 
world  to-day  is  striving.  And  so  we  accept  the  welcome  that  comes  heralded  by  bursts  of  music 
and  awaited  by  ten  thousand  feet  ready  to  move  to  the  measure  of  our  gladness.  If  all  the  noble 
band  assembled  twenty-one  years  ago  could  only  be  here  to  witness  the  fruition  of  their  hope  ! 

*****  ****  note  at 

In  their  name  and  with  their  spirit  we  who  are  trying  to  perform  the  solemn  tasks  they  left  us,  foot  of  page, 
accept  your  royal  welcome  and  bid  you  rejoice  with  us  in  all  that  makes  the  glory  and  triumph 
of  this  historic  day. 

*  Most  Eminent  Grand  Master  Hurlbut  was  unable  to  deliver  this  speech  in  consequence  of 
the  immense  throng  of  people  in  attendance  on  the  night  of  the  Grand  Reception,  August  17th, 
which  rendered  it  impossible  for  him  to  enter  the  Exposition.  Building  until  too  late  an  hour.  A 
printed  copy  of  the  speech  was  handed  by  him  to  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette  on  the  i8th  of 
August,  in  front  of  the  Grand  Encampment  Building.  It  will  be  remembered  that  this  was  after  the 
Grand  Review  and  Parade,  and  after  the  Grand  Reception. 


122 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDER Y, 


Resolutions 


adopted  by 


the  Com- 


mandery. 


Report  ot 


Committee 


to  the 


Resolutions  adopted  at  the  872d  Stated  Conclave  of  Apollo  Commandery, 
held  September  yth,  1880,  by  209  affirmative  votes  out.  of  212  present  : 

Whereas,  It  is  proper  for  a  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar,  in  its  collective  capacity  to 
express  its  confidence  in  its  officers,  or  to  approve  the  conduct  of  those  to  whom  it  has  delegated 
special  powers,  and 

Whereas,  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i.  Knights  Templar,  appointed  as  its  representatives, 
with  full  powers,  Eminent  Sir  Norman  Theodore  Cassette,  Sir  DeWitt  Clinton  Cregier,  Sir 
Oscar  William  Barrett,  Sir  Charles  Edgar  Coburn,  and  Sir  Warren  Grafton  Purdy,  to  serve  on  the 
Triennial  Committee,  with  other  Sir  Knights,  from  Chicago  Commandery  No.  19,  Knights  Temp- 
lar, and  St.  Bernard  Commandery  No.  35,  Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  and 

Whereas,  This  Committee,  for  the  various  Commanderies  of  this  City,  was  duly  recognized 
by  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  of  the  State  of  Ihinois,  and 

Whereas,  Subsequent  to  the  nomination  of  the  said  Triennial  Committee,  the  Right  Eminent 
Grand  Commander  of  Illinois  appointed  the  Eminent  Commander  of  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i, 
Knights  Templar,  Eminent  Sir  Norman  Theodore  Cassette,  as  Commandant  of  the  Parade  to  be 
held  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  on  Tuesday,  August  17th,  1880,  and 

Whereas,  The  Twenty-first  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United 
States  met  in  this  city  on  the  17th,  i8th  an  l  19th  of  August,  1880,  and  its  entertainment  by  the 
Sir  Knights  of  Illinois,  through  said  Triennial  Committee,  has  been  ridiculed  by  certain  portions 
of  the  press,  urged  on,  as  we  fear,  by  some  disaffected  members  of  the  Order,  and 

Whereas,  The  intimate  relations  long  held  by  the  Chairman  of  said  Triennial  Committee  with 
the  members  of  this  Commandery,  as  well  as  his  associates  on  that  committee,  render  it  proper 
that  we  should  place  upon  record  our  appreciation  of  his  and  their  services,  as  courteous  and 
exemplary  Templars,  and  their  merits  as  zealous  companions  in  arms,  in  the  arduous  labors  they 
have  performed  in  the  past  for  the  benefit  and  pleasure  of  Templar  Masons  in  this  country  ;  there- 
fore be  it 

Resolved,  That  Apollo  Commandery  No,  i.  Knights  Templar,  hereby  places  on  record  its  un- 
bounded confidence  in  the  integrity  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Triennial  Committee,  and  its  warmest 
thanks  for  the  impartial  manner  in  which  he  endeavored  to  carry  out  to  a  successful  termination 
every  detail  of  the  reception  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States  ;  and  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  the  Triennial  Committee  are  entitled  to  the  warmest  thanks  of 
this  Commandery  for  the  time  and  labor  given,  without  money  and  without  price,  in  the  perform- 
ance of  their  arduous  duties  ;  and  be  it 

Resolved,  That  Eminent  Sir  Norman  Theodore  Cassette  is  worthy  of  our  warmest  commenda- 
tions, for  the  many  Knightly  and  agreeable  qualities  which  characterize  him  as  a  Templar;  for 
his  unwearied  industry  ;  for  his  unselfish  devotion  to  this  Commandery  in  the  arduous  labors  of 
the  past  twelve  months  ;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  Preamble  and  Resolutions  be  presented  to  Eminent  Sir  Norman 
Theodore  Cassette,  and  the  other  members  of  the  Triennial  Committee,  appointed  by  this  Com- 
mandery, signed  and  attested  by  the  Recorder,  with  the  seal  of  this  Commandery  attached,  and 
that  a  copy  be  spread  upon  the  Records. 

R.  E.  Sir  Ranney,  from  the  Committee  on  Triennial  Matters,  presented  the  fol- 
lowing Report,  at  the  24th  Annual  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Commandery  held 
October  26th,  1880,  A.  O.  762,  which  was,  on  motion,  received  and  adopted  : 

To  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois  : 

The  Special  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  so  much  of  the  Grand  Commander's  Address,  as 
refers  to  the  Triennial,  as  also  the  official  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  three  Chicago 
Commanderies,  otherwise  known  as  the  Triennial  Committee,  and  to  whom  was  given  the  entire 
charge  of  the  arrangements  for  the  reception  and  entertainment  of  visiting  Commanderies,  on  the 
occasion  of  the  Twenty -first  Triennial  Conclave  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States, 
have  given  the  same  careful  consideration.  They  agree  with  the  remarks  of  the  Grand  Com- 
mander, that  certain  portions  of  that  report  might  be  profitably  omitted  frcm  our  printed  Pro- 
ceedings, and  as  copies  of  all  letters,  hotices  and  orders  issued  by  the  Triennial  Committee  are  on 
file  in  the  Grand  Recorder's  Office,  they  would  recommend  that  the  printing  of  "  Exhibits  A  to  E," 
inclusive,  be  dispensed  with,  as  not  being  of  sufficient  interest  at  this  day,  to  the  Order  at  large. 


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Your  Committee  have  carefully  perused  the  report  of  the  Chairman,  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T 
Cassette,  and  cheerfully  bear  witness  to  the  devotion  and  untiring  energy  of  that  Eminent  Knight,  ^'^^^  Com- 
as also  to  the  scrupulous  care  in  the  management  of  the  finances,  and  to  the  expenditure  of  valua- 
ble time  by  the  various  members  of  that  committee,  without  pay  or  prospect  of  reward,  beyond 
that  of  an  approving  conscience,  and  the  warm  appreciation  by  courteous  Knights  of  valuable 
services  performed  for  the  honor  and  glory  of  our  Order. 

Of  the  charges  made,  at  sundry  times,  against  the  Triennial  Committee  and  its  Chairman,  your 
Committee  would  report  that  a  careful  investigation  into  the  financial  statement,  does  not  sub-  ° 
stantiate  a  single  charge  ;  but  on  the  contrary,  we  know  that  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette  gave  up 
entirely  the  claims  of  his  business,  and  for  twelve  months  has  devoted  his  entire  time  to  the 
Order,  without  prospect  of  fee  or  reward. 

Surely,  for  this,  if  nothing  else,  he  is  entitled  to  a  public  expression  of  our  warmest  thanks. 

The  details  for  the  entertainment  of  visitors,  were  planned  with  consummate  care,  and  if  not 
carried  out  to  the  letter,  it  was  owing  to  circumstances  beyond  his  and  their  control.  The  enor-  i^^O'S,  an 
mous  concourse  of  Sir  Knights  from  all  parts  of  this  country,  and  the  intense  heat  of  the  weather 
were  sufficient  of  themselves  to  interfere  with  the  best  laid  plans.  But  for  all  that,  the  Triennial 
was  a  grand  success,  and  everything  was  done  by  the  Triennial  Committee  to  make  the  occasion 
memorable  in  the  annals  of  our  Order. 

Your  Committee,  therefore,  think  it  eminently  proper  for  this  Grand  Commandery  to  place  itself 

,  .      ,      .      1    r  11     •  1    •  Resolutions 

on  record  in  adopting  the  following  resolution  : 

That  to  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  Chairman  of  the  Triennial  Committee  and  Com- 
mandant of  the  Lines,  and  the  other  members  of  that  Committee  are  especially  due,  and  this  Grand 
Commandery  tenders  to  him  and  them  its  unqualified  appreciation  of  valuable  services  gratuit-  ^^^Qp^g^j 
ously  performed,  and  their  warmest  thanks  for  what  they  did  towards  making  this  occasion 
memorable  in  the  history  of  Templar  Knighthood. 

Ordered,  That  a  copy  of  this  resolution  be  engrossed,  duly  attested  by  the  Grand  Commander 
and  Grand  Recorder,  under  the  seal  of  the  Grand  Commandery,  and  presented  to  Eminent  Sir 
Norman  T.  Cassette,  and  the  other  members  of  the  Triennial  Committee. 

All  of  which  is  courteously  submitted. 

Henry  C.  Ranney, 


Daniel  Dustin, 
Jerome  R.  Gorin, 
Wm.  L.  Orr, 


Committee. 


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CHAPTER  XV. 


A.  D.  1884. 


Roster  of 
elected  and 
appointed 
Officers  for 
1884. 


The  following  Roster  exhibits  the  elected  and  appointed  officers  for  the  year 


Petition  for 
new  Com- 
mandery. 


Resolutions 
of  DeMolay 
of  Louisville, 
Ky. 


Eminent  Commander. 
Generalissimo. 
Captain  General. 
Prelate. 

Senior  Warden. 
Junior  Warden. 
Treasurer. 
Recorder. 
Standard  Bearer. 
Sword  Bearer, 
Warder. 

Captain  of  the  Guard. 
First  Guard. 
Second  Guard. 
Third  Guard. 
Armorer. 
Musical  Director. 


Eminent  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany, 
Sir  David  Ray  Crego, 
Sir  Harris  Ansel  Wheeler, 
Sir  Stewart  Marks, 
Sir  Morris  Jonathan  Moth, 
Sir  Henry  Frank  Comstock,  - 
Sir  James  Bollen  Bradwell, 
Sir  Samuel  Myrick  Henderson, 
Sir  John  E.  Loomis, 
Sir  Frank  Marion  Wood, 
Sir  James  Gordon  Miller,  - 
Sir  Moses  Nash  Fuller,  - 
Sir  Thomas  Cromlish,  - 
Sir  Luther  Chad  Young, 
Sir  William  Wilson  Ramsey, 
Sir  Harvey  Raymond  Caberey, 
Sir  Richard  Robert  Trench, 

At  the  947th  Stated  Conclave,  the  petition  of  Sirs  Edward  Kirk,  Jr.,  Frank 
Sheffield,  P.  S.  Hudson,  A.  Charles  Potter,  et  al.,  to  the  Grand  Commandery, 
asking  a  Dispensation  to  form  and  open  a  Commandery  at  Englewood,  was 
unanimously  recommended  and  concurred  in ;  and  at  the  948th  Stated  Con- 
clave, held  January  ist,  1884,  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  of  both  the 
Templar  and  Corporate  Bodies,  in  sub-letting  the  apartments  known  as  the  Blue 
Lodge  Room,  parlors  connected  therewith,  together  with  the  small  armory  pre- 
viously occupied  by  them,  to  Oriental  Consistory  for  a  term  of  ten  years  from 
January  1st,  1884,  at  an  annual  rental  of  one  thousand  dollars  was,  on  motion, 
unanimously  approved. 

At  the  last  Conclave  named,  a  preamble  and  resolutions  were  received  from 
DeMolay  Commandery  No.  12,  Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Louisville, 
Kentucky,  and  duly  read,  to-wit ;        *       *  * 

Whereas,  The  Sir  Knights  of  DeMolay  Commandery  No.  12,  Knights  Templar,  appreciating 
in  every  sense  the  fraternal  greetings,  lavish  hospitalities  and  flattering  attentions  extended  to  them 
during  their  recent  pilgrimage  to  the  "  Pacific  Coast,"  and  desiring  to  give  some  expression  to 
their  gratitude,  be  it 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR, 


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Resolved,  That  our  sincere  thanks  be  and  are  hereby  tendered  to  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i, 
Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Chicago.  Illinois,  for  the  very  many  kindly  courtesies  shown  us, 
and  assure  them  that  they  will  receive  a  cordial  "  Kentucky  welcome  "  whenever  they  may 
honor  us  with  their  presence  in  our  "  Old  Kentucky  Home." 

On  motion,  the  Recorder  was  instructed  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  the 
resolutions  and  suitably  to  prepare  them  to  hang  upon  the  walls  of  Apollo 
Commandery. 

At  the  same  Conclave,  on  motion  of  Sir  James  B.  Bradwell,  the  following 
preamble  and  resolutions  were  also  adopted,  to  wit  : 

Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i.  Knights  Templar,  remembering  the  many  courtesies  and  acts  of  Rgiative  to 
kindness  of  Sir  Knight  E.  M.  Jenkins,  the  American  and  European  tourist  agent,  and  his  son  and  death  of 
manager,  James  M.  Jenkins,  during  the  recent  pilgrimage  of  Apollo  Commandery  to  Europe,  has,  Sir  E.  M. 
with  deep  sorrow,  learned  on  this  first  day  of  the  New  Year,  that  our  friend  and  brother,  Sir  ^ 
Knight  E.  M.  Jenkins,  departed  this  life  at  his  home  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  on  the  17th  day  of 
December,  18S3  ;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  By  Apollo  Commandery  that  in  the  death  of  Sir  Knight  E,  M.  Jenkins  a  true  and 
courteous  Knight  has  fallen  and  been  taken  from  his  earthly  pilgrimage  to  dwell  forever  in  the 
Asylum  of  our  Heavenly  Father. 

Resolved,  That  we  sympathize  with  our  friend,  James  M.  Jenkins,  in  the  loss  of  his  father, 
the  widow  of  the  deceased  and  his  family,  in  this,  their  irreparable  loss,  and  that  cur  Sir  Knight 
Recorder  send  to  the  son  and  widow  of  the  deceased,  a  copy  of  these  resolutions,  under  the  seal 
of  the  Commandery,  signed  by  the  Eminent  Commander,  and  certified  by  himself. 

At  the  949th  Stated  Conclave,  held  January  15th,  1884,  on  motion  of  Sir  Legislation 
Captain  General  David  Ray  Crego,  the  following  judicious  and  thoughtful 
legislation  was  enacted,  to  wit : 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  nine  be  appointed  by  the  Eminent  Commander,  three  from  the 
South,  three  from  the  West,  and  three  from  ihe  North  Divisions  of  the  city,  whose  duty  it  shall  be 
to  visit  the  sick  and  afflicted  Sir  Knights  of  this  Commandery,  and  ascertain  their  wants  and 
necessities,  and  report  the  same  to  the  Eminent  Commander;  and  that  the  names  of  the  Sir 
Knights  constituting  such  committee  be  published  in  the  General  Orders. 

Thereupon  the  Eminent  Commander,  in  accordance  with  the  spirit  of  the 
resolution,  appointed  three  Sir  Knights  for  each  of  the  respective  divisions. 

An  Emergency  Conclave  of  the  Commandery  was  convened  Saturday,  January  Emergency 
19th,  1884,  at  8  o'clock  A.  M.,  for  the  purpose  of  attending  the  funeral  of  the 
late  Sir  Knight,  William  Gay  Swan,  at  Milwaukee.    The  following  dispensa- 
tion was  received,  to  wit :  Conclave, 
Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar, 
State  of  Wisconsin, 

Milwaukee,  January  iSth,  1884. 
Permission  is  hereby  given  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i.  Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Chicago,  to  bury  Sir 
in  the  Jurisdiction  of  Illinois,  to  enter  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Wisconsin  for 
the  purpose  of  paying  the  last  tribute  of  love  and  respect  to  the  remains  of  our  deceased  Frater. 
Sir  William  G.  Swan,  G.  H.  Benzenbekg, 

[seal,]  Grand  Commander.      William  Gay 

The  Officers,  seventy-five  Knights  of  Apollo  and  twenty  visiting  Sir  Knights 
were  in  line.  The  Eminent  Commander  appointed  the  following  Sir  Knights 
as  pall  bearers:  Sirs  Frank  M,  Luce,  Sanford  Rankin,  Andrew  F.  Burrill, 
Charles  E.  Woolley  and  John  E.  Loomis  of  Apollo  Commandery,  and  Sir  H. 
W.  Mead  of  Chicago  Commandery. 


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The  "Commandery  marched  from  the  Asylum  to  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  & 
St.  Paul  Railway  depot,  whence  a  special  train,  furnished  by  the  officers  of  said 
Railway  Company,  conveyed  the  Sir  Knights  to  Milwaukee.  Arriving  at  Mil- 
waukee at  11:30  A.  M.,  the  Commandery  was  met  by  Wisconsin  Commandery 
No.  I,  Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Milwaukee,  Wis.  At  12  o'clock  lunch 
was  served,  after  which  Apollo  Commandery  proceeded  in  carriages  to  the  home 
of  the  late  Frater,  on  Grand  avenue,  in  Milwaukee,  escorted  by  Wisconsin 
Commandery,  and  took  charge  of  the  remains.  From  thence  the  Commander- 
ies  marched  to  St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  where  the  remains  were 
deposited  in  the  chancel.  After  appropriate  religious  exercises  by  the  Rector, 
^       *  the  remains  were  conveyed  to  Forest  Home  Cemetery,  where 

they  were  interred;  the  beautiful  burial  service  of  our  Order  being  performed 
by  the  Commandery."    Apollo  No.  I  "then  returned  by  carriages  to  the  depot 
where  supper  was  served.    At  6  o'clock  p.  m.  the  special  train  conveyed  the 
Commandery  to  Chicago,"  where  it  arrived  at  9  o'clock  P.  M. 
Visit  tc  Tuesday  evening,  January  29th,  1884,  pursuant  to  a  vote  at  a  previous 

Chevalier  Stated  Conclave  to  do  so,  Apollo  Commandery  paid  a  visit  to  Chevalier  Bayard 
Commandery,  Commandery  at  its  Asylum,  a  Dispensation  allowing  it  having  been  received 
from  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  James  G.  Elwood.  The  "  Com- 
mandery proceeded  by  the  Chicago  City  Railway  to  the  Asylum  of  Chevalier 
Bayard  Commandery,  No.  52,  Knights  Templar,  on  Twenty-second  street, 
where  it  was  "escorted  into  the  Asylum  by  a  detachment  under  the  com- 
mand of  Eminent  Sir  John  C.  Neely,  and  formally  introduced  to  Eminent  Sir 
David  G.  Hamilton,  Eminent  Commander  of  Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery, 
who  cordially  welcomed  Apollo  Commandery,  and  whose  remarks  were  feel- 
ingly responded  to  by  Eminent  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany,  who  extended  the 
right  hand  of  fellowship  to  Chevalier  Bayard  Commandery  on  behalf  of  Apollo 
Commandery.  After  spending  the  evening  in  social,  knightly  and  fraternal 
intercourse,  Apollo  Commandery  returned  to  its  Asylum." 

At  the  950th  Stated  Conclave,  held  February  5th,  1884,  the  sword  of  the 
late  frater  of  Apollo  Commandery,  Sir  William  Gay  Swan,  was  presented  to  the 
Commandery  by  Mrs.  Swan,  whose  letter  of  presentation  was  as  follows : 

Milwaukee,  February  3d,  1884. 
Eminent  Sir  Henry  S.  Tiffany,  Eminent  Commander  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  1, 
Knights  Templar,  Chicago,  III.  : 
Please  accept  from  me  for  yourself  and  for  Apollo  Commandery,  of  which  my  late  husband  was 
a  devoted  member,  heartfelt  thanks  for  the  great  kindness  rendered  me  in  the  hour  of  extreme 
affliction  by  your  noble  goodness  in  coming  to  Milwaukee  to  perform  for  my  loved  one  the  last 
honors  of  earth. 

I  cannot  express  my  gratitude,  but  on  my  heart  is  engraven  the  memory  of  all  you  have  done 
and  Apollo  will  ever  be  to  me  near  and  dear. 

The  sword  of  hini  who  has  gone,  to  which  he  was  so  much  attached,  and  always  wore  withsuch 
satisfaction,  I  hereby  present  to  the  Commandery,  to  be  retained,  if  it  so  pleases  you,  as  a  souvenir 
of  the  happy  earthly  associations  between  you  and  him.  Accept  it,  Sir  Knight,  with  the  benedic- 
tion he  would  pronounce  could  he  speak  for  himself,  and  with  his  widow's  tenderest  blessing. 

Very  sincerely, 

Jessie  L.  Swan  , 


Sword  of 
Sir  W.  G. 
Swan. 


Letter  from 
his  wife  pre- 
senting it. 


NO.  I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR 


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At  this  same  Conclave,  General  Order  No.  2  of  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  A  history  of 

Apollo. 

Commander  was  received.  It  is  recited  therein,  that  "  It  is  hereby  directed 
that  each  Commandery  at  once  shall  select  one  or  more  competent  Sir  Knights, 
who  shall  immediately  collect  and  formulate  the  history  of  the  Commandery 
from  its  earliest  transactions."  In  accordance  with  the  above  Order,  the  Emi- 
nent Commander  appointed  Right  Eminent  Sir  T.  T.  Gurney,  Right  Eminent 
Sir  William  H.  Turner,  and  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette  a  committee 
to  formulate  the  history  of  Apollo  Commandery. 
The  following  resolution  was  also  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  by  the  Eminent  Commander  whose  duty      j-elative  to 
shall  be  to  aid  and  assist  those  of  our  members  who  may  be  out  of  employment,  and  to  endeavor  assisting 
to  secure  situations  for  them.  members. 

The  Eminent  Commander  at  once  appointed  the  committee,  as  follows  :  Sirs 
John  E.  Norton,  DeWitt  C.  Cregier  and  Charles  C.  Hilton. 

At  the  951st  Stated  Conclave,  held  February  19th,  1884,  it  having  been 
determined,  at  a  previous  Conclave,  to  give  a  sociable  in  the  apartments  ^  Sociable, 
belonging  to  the  Commandery,  February  26th,  1884,  the  following  Committee  of 
Arrangements  was  appointed,  viz  :  Sir  James  Hitchcock,  Chairman,  and  Sirs 
Charles  O.  Hall,  William  H.  Reid,  Francis  M.  Bradshaw,  Charles  C.  Hilton, 
and  Daniel  F.  Crilly.  A  Reception  and  a  Floor  Committee  was  also  appointed. 

The  Sociable  was  a  marked  success.  Several  hundred  Sir  Knights  and 
many  ladies  were  present.  The  hours  were  passed  in  sociability  and  dancing, 
and  none  went  away  who  did  not  wish  that  the  enjoyable  occasion  could  be 
soon  repeated. 

At  the  954th  Stated  Conclave,  held  April  1st,  1884,  beautifully  engraved  and  Eesolutlons 
framed  resolutions  were  received  from  St.  Bernard  Commandery,  No.  35,  K.  T.  s°  Bernard, 
of  Chicago,  expressive  of  fraternal  regard  and  appreciation  for  courtesies  of  escort 
which  it  had  received  on  the  occasions  of  its  departure  and  return  from 
California.  They  grace  the  walls  of  the  parlor  of  Apollo  Commandery.  Such 
mementoes  make  up  much  of  the  knightly  sentiment  evoked  by  fraternal  and 
chivalric  deeds. 

On  the  evening  of  the  last  Tuesday  in  April,  another  sociable  was  given  by  Another 
the  Commandery,  which  was  the  equal  of  any  ever  given  in  the  apartments  of  the  ^°^^^^'^* 
Body.    There  were  fully  six  hundred  Sir  Knights  and  ladies  present,  and 
sociability,  music  and  dancing  rendered  the  night  so  enjoyable  that  it  will  not 
be  soon  forgotten. 

At  the  957th  Stated  Conclave,  held  May  20th,  1884,  Right  Eminent  Sir  John  Rt.  Em.  Sir 
R.  Parson,  Grand  Sword  Bearer  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  Knights  Templar  recdved.'^^°" 
of  the  United  States  of  America,  and  Chairman  of  the  Triennial  Committee  of 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  was  announced  as  being  in  the  parlor  of  the  Commandery; 
whereupon  an  escort  was  detailed  by  the  Eminent  Commander  and  the  Right 
Eminent  Sir  Knight  escorted  into  the  Asylum,  where  he  was  introduced  by 
Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Gassette,  and  awarded  the  honors  due  his  exalted  rank. 

Sir  James  B.  Bradwell,  at  the  959th  Stated  Conclave,  held  June  17th,  1884, 
offered  the  following  resolution,  which  was  unanimously  adopted,  to  wit : 


128 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Resolution 

about 

history. 


Committee 
appointed. 


History 
completed. 


Em.  Sir 

Tiflfany's 
administra- 
tion 

continues. 


The  work. 


Asylum 
refitted. 


Whereas,  The  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois  is  about  to  publish  a  history  of  all  the 
Commanderies  in  the  State,  from  their  organization  to  October,  i88i ;  and. 

Whereas,  A  Committee  heretofore  appointed  is  writing  the  history  of  this  Body,  it  being 
desirable  that  it  be  completed  to  date,  and  a  copy  thereof,  with  a  complete  list  of  members,  put 
in  possession  of  each  Sir  Knight ;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  Committee  preparing  the  history  be  requested  to  complete  the  same  to  date, 
and  that  a  Committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  purchase  sheets  of  the  Grand  Commandery  printer 
or  otherwise,  adding  such  matter  as  is  named  in  the  preamble,  and  have  the  same  properly  bound 
for  general  distribution  to  the  members  of  Apollo  Commandery. 

In  accordance  therewith,  the  Eminent  Commander  subsequently  appointed 
Sirs  James  M.  Whitehead,  Henry  H.  Hobbs  and  Frank  M.  Wood  to  consum- 
mate the  publication  of  the  history  of  the  Commandery,  contemplated  by  the 
resolution,  and  at  the  962d  Stated  Conclave,  held  August  5th,  1884,  the  Com- 
mittee appointed  to  formulate  the  history  of  the  Commandery  according  to 
General  Order  No.  2,  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  James  G.  Elwood,  Grand  Com- 
mander, and  the  last  recited  resolution,  made  their  report ;  to  wit : 

Chicago,  August  5th,  1884. 
To  the  Eminent  Commander,  Officers,  and  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Commandery  No .  i  Knights 
Tejitplar  : 

The  Committee,  consisting  of  Right  Eminent  Sir  Theodore  T.  Gurney,  Eminent  Sir  Norman 
T.  Gassette,  and  Right  Eminent  Sir  William  H.  Turner,  appointed  by  the  Eminent  Commander 
to  formulate  the  history  of  Apollo  Commandery  from  its  organization  to  the  close  of  1881,  in 
accordance  with  an  order  of  the  Right  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of  Illinois,  and  to  bring  the 
same  down  to  date,  by  virtue  of  a  resolution  of  Apollo  Commandery  adopted  at  a  Stated  Con- 
clave, held  June  17th,  1884,  respectfully  report  that  the  task  assigned  them  has  been  completed  by 
Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Gassette  ;  that  the  work  was  submitted  to,  and  approved  by  the  Board 
of  Trustees  at  a  meeting  held  July  28th,  1884,  and  that  the  history  has  been  turned  over  to  the 
Eminent  Commander,  and  hence  they  ask  to  be  discharged. 

Theodore  T.  Gurney,  | 

Wm.  H.  Turner,  >Committee. 

Norman  T.  Cassette,! 


The  labors  incident  to  Eminent  Sir  Tiffany's  position  as  Commander  continue 
at  the  date  this  history  goes  to  press. 

We  believe  that  no  work  necessary  to  be  done  will  be  avoided  ;  no  duty  will 
be  neglected;  and  that  such  painstaking  care  will  have  been  exercised  as  will 
enable  him  to  approach  the  time  for  holding  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Com- 
mandery with  equanimity  and  composure  ;  and  that  he  will  be  fully  conscious 
of  having  done  all  that  has  been  required  of  him. 

He  received  the  Commandery  with  the  Treasury  in  good  condition  and  we 
have  good  reasons  to  believe  that  he  will  have  increased  the  properties  of  the 
Commandery. 

The  "work"  has  been  continuously  in  progress  during  the  entire  year, 
and  twenty-seven  have  received  the  Order  of  the  Temple  at  his  hands  up  to 
September  30th,  1884. 

The  Asylum  and  all  the  other  rooms  of  the  Commandery  have  been  renovated 
and  refitted  at  a  cost  of  nearly  four  thousand  dollars ;  a  part  of  the  great  burden 
of  rent  has  been  taken  from  the  Commandery  by  the  renting  of  the  Blue 
Lodge  Hall  to  Oriental  Consistory,  and  prosperity  is  within  the  doors  of  the 
Commandery. 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  129 


The  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  No.  i  can  now  feel  a  just  pride  because  of  the  A  just 
beauty  of  the  apartments  which  they  occupy  in  the  American  Express  Building, 
72  to  78  Monroe  street,  and  in  consequence  of  part  of  the  premises  originally 
leased  having  been  sub-let  to  the  Consistory,  can  also  be  assured  that  the  burden 
of  rent  which  they  have  borne  alone  for  years,  is  so  much  reduced,  as  to  make  the 
rest  within  the  easy  compassing  of  the  Commandery ;  besides  all  this,  sixteen 
hundred  dollars  worth  of  West  Chicago  City  five  per  cent  per  annum'  interest 
bearing  bonds  have  been  purchased  with  the  non-interest  paying  idle  money  in 
the  Life  Membership  Fund,  and  altogether  enough  has  been  accomplished  to 
warrant  the  most  sanguine  expectations  for  the  future. 

The  third  epoch  of  the  Commandery  continues,  and  who  will  be  the  first  The  third 
Commander  to  let  the  Body  relapse  from  the  proud  position  of  no  debt,  back  to 
the  period  of  debt  or  more  debt  ? 

Eminent  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany  did  not  assume  the  duties  of  Eminent  Em.  Sir 
Commander  without  experience.  He  had  been  twice  elected  Most  Excellent  ^  S.TiflFany; 
High  Priest  of  Fairview  Chapter,  No.  i6i,  R.  A.  M..  and  during  his  incum- 
bency for  the  several  terms  of  office,  had  succeeded  in  accomplishing  as  much 
for  that  Body  as  any  officer  who  preceded  or  has  succeeded  him.  He  largely 
increased  its  membership,  created  a  plethoric  treasury,  enforced  needed  disci- 
pline, and  induced  a  wonderful  harmony  betweeji  its  members. 

Elected  Recorder  of  Apollo  Commandery  in  1878,  he  held  the  office  for  three  As 
successive  years.  No  Recorder  ever  had  more  work  to  do,  and  none  ever  per- 
formed  the  duties  of  that  office  more  faithfully,  in  the  history  of  the  Command- 
ery. We  know  that  -  comparisons  are  odious,"  and  yet  we  feel  constrained  to 
say  that  Eminent  Sir  Tiffany  was  the  first  Recorder  to  ever  open  a  regular  double 
entry  set  of  books  for  the  Commandery,  and  reduce  its  affairs  to  the  status 
required  by  the  rules  and  science  of  book-keeping;  that  he  had  an  executive 
talent  which  was  a  solace  to  his  Eminent  Commander,  and  altogether  has  never 
been  excelled  in  that  position. 

As  Generalissimo  during  the  years  1882  and  1883,  his  services  were  equally  As  General 
valuable.  Quick  and  ready,  he  always  lightened  the  burdens  to  be  borne  by  his 
Commander,  and  his  loyalty  and  honesty  to  the  interests  of  the  Commandery 
and  the  Eminent  Commander  under  whom  he  served,  were  pre-eminent  No 
one  can  appreciate  the  last  fact  stated  as  well  as  the  Eminent  Commander  who 
had  the  honor  to  hold  the  office  of  Commander  for  the  two  years  named,  and  we 
know  whereof  we  speak  when  we  say  that  had  it  not  been  for  the  true,  honest 
and  prudent  assistance  of  Sir  Generalissimo  Tiffany,  that  he— broken  in  health 
as  he  was— would  have  often  despaired  when  trying  to  perform  the  duties 
which  devolved  upon  him ;  and  we  also  know  that  the  labors  of  Sir  Tiffany  will 
never  be  forgotten,  and  that  his  fraternal  helpfulness  was  a  continual  boon. 

The  preceding  pages  of  this  history  so  thoroughly  set  forth  many  of  the  The  duties 
duties  which  he  performed,  that  a  recital  of  them  again  would  only  be  a  reca 
pitulation.    Suffice  it  to  say  that  all  the  duties  he  had  performed,  more  fully 
prepared  him  to  fill  the  high  office  he  now  holds,  and  it  is  no  little  credit  to 
Apollo  Commandery  that  it  has  never  exalted  to  the  high  station  of  Eminent 


130 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Commandery 
common  law. 


\Vhen_  - 
Em.  Sir 
H.S.Tiffany 

was 

knighted. 


No  fault 
of  his. 


A  singular 
honor. 


Harmony 
promoted. 


.^.r  .nv  Sir  Kni^bt  who  has  not  received  the  Orders  within  its  pre- 

one  hundred  the  Commandery  iwmty.lwo  year,  younger,  and  the  Sir  Knight 
upon  vhom  the  honor  was  conferred  so  remarkable,  by  reason  <^^:^^^^^^2t 
probity  as  to  warrant  it;  and  then,  and  never  srnoe  then,  any  Sir  K^'i^t 
fhan  one  who  had  earned  the  preferment,  and  demonstrated  h.s  eminent  fitness 
for  Ae  office  by  as  either  Generalusi,no  or  Cafta.n  General  oi 

^e  Comm"Jery,  and  in  the  latter  case  only  then  when  the  General.srmo 
re  usedTo  standfo  election.  It  seems  to  have  been  the  common  law  of  Apollo 
Commandery  that  a  Sir  Knight  who  had  been  Knighted  withrn  ,ts  precmcts,  and 
"y Ihe^varied  duties  of  service  in  the  Council  of  the  Commandery,  was 
alone  onl  upon  whom  Sir  Knights  were  inclined  to  bestow  the  honor,  or  rmpose 
fhe  duties  of  Eminent  Commander.  ,     j  c 

Eminelt  Sir  Henry  Stanton  Tiffany  received  the  honors  of  Kn.ghthood  Sep- 
,  ber^vth  A  D  .872,  in  ApoUo  Commandery,  and  had  served  both  as 
rco  er  and  Get;a,issimo,  in  the  two  positions,  for  a  period  of  five  years 
H  wa  not  a  divided  love,  and  he  had  been  tried.  As  Em.nen  Commander 
he  his  not  had  the  expectation  of  doing  a  remarkable  amount  of  work  or  of 
havhtg  an  over-eventful  year  in  any  way.  He  has  hoped,  however,  to  be  ena- 
bled to  "idify  the  Commandery  into  compactness  as  far  as  unity  of  purpose  was 
clncerned.  and  we  trust  not  without  results.  He  has  hoped  to  increase  the 
money  in  &e  various  funds  of  the  Commandery.  notwithstanding  the  extraordi 
Try  expens.  incurred  in  refitting  and  furnishing  the  apartments  occupied  by 
:h?ComLndery,and  has  no  reason  to  be  disappointed  with  the  consummation 

Ift;ra™ony  and  efiiciency  of  the  Commandery  has  not P— 
is  through  no  fault  of  his,  because  a  more  generous-hearted  Templar  never 
nresided  over  the  Commandery.  -,      •      i  v 

^  To  his  administration  belongs  a  singular  achievement  and  a  singular  honor 
May  .0th  1885,  wiUbe  the  40th  anniversary  of  Apollo  Commandery,  and  h 
has'ent  rU  the  fortieth  year  of  its  existence,  as  Commander,  and  up  to  h 
Lcumbency  no  history  of  this  great  Commandery  has  ever  been  f  ormulated  o 
pronm^ated;  and  to  his  administration  belongs  the  credit  of  such  a  work  I 
Uis  not  now.  at  some  date  in  the  near  future  it  will  be  esteemed  one  of  the 
events  of  which  an  Eminent  Commander  can  be  most  proud. 

WhaLerof  Masonic  preferment  the  future  may  have  in  store  for  this  Emi- 
ne^S  Knight,  we  know  not;  but  we  are  convinced  that  whatever  aut.es  r^ay 
be  imiled  i:po;  him  will  be  discharged  to  the  best  ^^f^^l'^^^^^;: 
this  is  said  it  means  much,  because  he  has  executive  ability  of  a  high  order 
and  a  mas  er  of  financial  details.  He  will  continually  labor  to  think  more  of 
TemplarL  himself,  and  convince  others  to  do  so.  He  will  work  to  promote 
harmony  between  Sister  Bodies,  and  aim  to  make  the  folds  of  a  single  Beausean 
noHlone  cover  one  Commandery,  but  all,  and  hope  for  no  reward  for  himself 
but  the  honest  good  will  and  esteem  of  his  Praters. 


NO,  1,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  ]31 


Such  Templars  as  he,  vivify  Templarism  as  with  a  living  heart,  which  if  voiced 
and  heard  by  all,  would  create  a  sentiment  for  truth  equal  to  the  tenets  of  the 
Order  which  all  enrolled  under  her  banner  have  vowed  to  hold  sacred,  and 
which  are  as  chivalric  as  any  which  ever  impelled  her  hosts  forward  to  battle 
for  the  noble  and  good  against  their  foes. 

The  historians  of  the  Commandery  are  aware  of  the  fact  that  the  truest  im-  Truest 
portanceof  history  consists  in  the  moral  lessons  contained  therein;  and  that  '"^po^tance 
that  knowledge  of  the  past  is  best,  which  will  enable  us  to  profit  by  the  experi-  etc!"'''""^' 
ence  of  others,  so  as  to  avoid  like  mistakes,  and  gain  by  the  virtues  brought  to 
view.    They  might  be  inclined  to  be  more  free  with  such  deductions,  if  a 
majority  of  the  Sir  Knights  who  have  made  both  the  private  and  public  history  of 
the  Commandery  were  not  still  living ;  or,  did  the  space  allowed  by  the  Print- 
ing Committee  permit  it;  but  as  there  has  been  no  attempt  heretofore  to  even 
tabulate  statistical  data  of  the  Commandery  for  publication,  and  the  records  of 
the  Commandery  being  absolutely  silent  in  many  cases  as  to  events,  locations  Locations, 
and  correct  names,  and  it  being  believed  that  even  a  majority  of  the  Sir  Knights  tSs'now 
of  Apollo  are  themselves  ignorant  of  the  fundamental  facts  concerning  the 
Commandery,  if  not  of  both  important  and  unimportant  events,  it  has  been 
thought  for  these  reasons,  and  other  obvious  ones,  that  a  greater  service  would 
be  rendered  now,  by  being  accurate  as  to  locations,  dates,  and  names,  forming 
thereby  a  tentative  ground  for  the  future  painstaking  historian  to  evolve  such 
results  as  shall  be  warranted  from  the  history  now  submitted ;  the  study  of  moral 
cause  and  effect ;  psychical  and  financial  results,  and  of  non-public  and  pre-em- 
inent important  matters,  which  are  sequent  to  the  premises  herein,  and  consti- 
tute proper  ethical  data,  rather  than  amplify  upon  such  themes  at  this  time. 

It  can  be  readily  understood  that  the  historians  of  Apollo  Commandery  are  Apollo 
surrounded  with  difficulties  when  trying  to  avoid  what  might  seem  to  be  too  ?°"sh'No.i, 
much  self-glorification,  it  being  only  one  of  the  five  Commanderies  in  the 
City  of  Chicago,  and  have  consequently  tried  to  keep  their  pride  within  due 
bounds,  and  confiae  themselves  to  a  proper  recital  of  facts. 

We  cannot  help  realizing,  however,  that  Apollo  Commandery  is  the  Mother  The  Mother 
of  the  Commanderies  in  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  Godmother  of  all  the  Com 
manderies  in  this  Grand  Jurisdiction,  and  of  many  others  in  adjoining  States 
She  feels  a  just  pride  in  them  all,  and  is  also  cognizant  that  to  a  degree  the 
conservative,  heroic  onward  march  of  Chicago  Commandery  No.  19  the  brilliant 
record  of  honored  St.  Bernard  No.  35,  the  laudable  efforts  of  Chevalier  Bayard 
No.  52,  the  chivalric  enterprise  and  hospitality  of  Montjoie  No.  53,  the  knightly 
achievements  of  other  subordinate  and  Grand  Commanderies  she  has  fostered  in 
endeavor,  and  the  pre-eminent  record  made  by  the  Grand  Commandery  to 
which  she  is  subordinate,  and  helped  organize  more  than  ten  years  subsequent 
to  the  date  of  her  own  charter  from  the  Grand  Encampment,  redounds  to  the 
credit  of  Apollo  Commandery;  and  hence  says,  Children  and  God  Children 
let  the  Mother  and  Godmother  be  a  little  self-complacent  just  now  withoui  offendld'^ 
being  offended,  and  glory  in  her  achievements  as  she  does  in  yours. 


132 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


An  existence 
which  dates 
back. 


Fifteen 
hundred 
members, 
etc. 


Composition 
membership. 


Reputation, 


Hospitality 


Mt. 

Washington 


A  Commandery  whose  existence  dates  back  to  that  period  when  the  City  of 
Chicao-o  had  but  just  become  a  city;  when  the  State  of  Illinois  was  but  a  fron- 
tier; Ind  whose  members  were  important  factors  in  the  progress  of  Municipal- 
ity Ind  State;  wrung  from  the  soil  sustenance  for  themselves  and  famihes ; 
made  the  wilderness  Blossom  like  a  rose;"  helped  write  the  history  of  a  great 
commonwealth ;  and  aided  in  formulating  its  laws  and  shaping  its  policy,  besides 
formina  and  organizing  the  first  Knight  Templars  Encampment  m  this  or 
any  other  adjoining  State  or  Territory  ;  and  one  which  has  had  more  to  do  with 
the  advanced  position  of  Templarism  in  this  and  other  Grand  Jurisdictions 
in  the  Northwest  than  any  similar  body,  feels  a  right  to  be  justly  proud  of  her 

achievements.  -,     r  cr  a  a 

The  Commandery  has  had  since  its  organization  upwards  of  fifteen  hundred 
members,  and  has  conferred  the  Orders  upon  quite  twelve  hundred  comp  nions. 
among  whom  maybe  foundthose  who  haveheld  ornow  holdhigh  Govermental, 
County  Civic  and  Masonic  offices;  Lawyers,  Physicians,  Merchants,  Architects, 
Mechanical  Engineers,  and  business  men,  who  are  as  distinguished  as  any  ever 
known  in  the  commonwealth,  and  who  are  representatives  of  every  line  of  trade 
and  every  measure  of  success  in  life.  Men  who  have  accumulated  great  for- 
tunes; men  who  are  making  fortunes;  men  who  are  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances and  men  who  have  had  but  indifferent  prosperity  and  financial  success ; 
but  as  varied  as  their  avocations  have  been,  the  aggregate  result  has  been  success. 
They  have  brought  into  the  Asylum  degrees  of  mental  acumen  and  talent,  as 
varied  as  was  their  avocations;  and  as  a  whole  have  sought  to  advance  the 
cause  of  Templary  and  enhance  the  reputation  of  Apollo  Commandery. 

Its  reputation  has  been  their  concern;  and  to  add  lustre  to  its  Beauseant 
their  desire.  They  have  worked  and  plodded  with  every  degree  of  success  to 
accomplish  that  which  would  add  to  its  glory  and  the  honor  of  the  Grand  Juris- 
diction in  which  it  was  an  humble  subordinate.  Weary  years  of  work  have 
counted  as  nothing  if  the  accomplished  result  was  in  any  way  commensurate 
with  the  labor.  Hospitality  has  been  a  synonym  for  them  always;  and  their 
fraternal  regard  has  been  as  a  garment  of  brilliant  radiance,  and  soft  as  wool 
when  charity  has  honestly  demanded  that  it  should  be  thrown  over  the  errors  of 

sTandina  on  the  summit  of  Mt.  Washington  and  looking  down,  it  seems  at 
first  as  if^ne  only  had  a  view  of  a  storm-tossed  ocean  of  mountain-peaks 
bewildering  and  indistinguishable  ;  but  the  eye  soon  becomes  accustomed  to  what 
it  sees  and  begins  to  classify  whatever  before  it,  and  discern  objects  of 
beauty  far  and  near.  Mt.  Adams  bursts  athwart  the  sky  with  the  dark  green  of 
its  wooded  sides  distinctly  before  your  eyes.  To  the  right,  you  see  the  sombre- 
wooded  Mt.  Madison  tower  aloft.  Between  the  two,  flooded  with  a  glorious 
bewilderment  of  deepening  shades,  the  heavily-wooded  Crescent  Range  mellows 
the  sunlight  as  it  falls.  There,  right  below  you,  you  see  a  valley  lying  spread 
out  dotted  here  and  there  with  picturesquely  located  farms  blazing  m  emerald 
tints  as  the  light  falls  upon  the  waving  verdure  of  the  fields;  and  merging  into  a 
bluer  one  where  the  land  seems  to  reach  the  sky;  altogether  presenting  a 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  I33 


ravishing  view  of  mountains,  gorges,  ravines,  farms,  villages,  lakes,  and  flowing 
rivers  below,  and  on  every  side.  The  Lord's  green  earth  never  could  look 
more  lovely— clouds  above  and  below ;  a  landscape  bathed  in  sunlight  which 
seems  to  come  from  depths  it  is  impossible  to  fathom  or  see  ;  and  myriads  of 
mountain-peaks,  tarns,  valleys,  and  rivers,  all  making  an  inartificial  panoramic 
view  no  mortal  artist's  hand  could  equal. 

So,  when  first  contemplating  the  varied  acts,  component  to  the  history  of  The  retro- 
Apollo  Commandery,  from  the  exalted  sphere  of  the  retrospective  critic,  one  is  cS'""^ 
bewildered  by  the  chaotic  phantasmagoria  produced  by  complex  motives  and 
complicated  human  characteristics.    The  mental  vision  clears,  however,  when 
memory  evolves  the  fact  that  the  history  of  Nations  and  Organizations— and 
what  but  a  small  Nation  is  an  Organization— demonstrate  that  out  of  complexity 
of  error  and  endeavor  come  unification  in  results.    That  there  are  always 
periods  in  the  history  of  countries  of  both  excellence  and  decline,  and  from  Excellence 
decline  ofttimes  a  Renaisance  from  the  very  ashes  of  despair  to  a  greater  zenith  decline  and 
of  glory  than  ever  occupied  before.    Out  of  such  a  singular  condition  of 
aff"airs,  first  observed,  one  sees,  how  through  it  all  the  good  has  crystalized  into 
vital  and  elevating  acts  on  the  one  hand,  and  into  the  overthrow  of  error  on  the 
other.     What  though  discord,  seemingly  as  sombre  as  Mt.  Adams,  has  over-  Discord 
whelmed  with  turmoil,  a  growing  conviction  ?  What  though  pernicious  malic- 
ious envy  has  towered  aloft  like  a  Mt.  Madison,  causing  the  flesh  to  creep  and  Envy, 
fraternity  to  blush?     What  though  a  minority  have  forgotten  both  vows  and 
manhood,  and  indulged  in  misrepresentation;  ever  before  the  Commandery  as 
a  whole,  has  stood  the  Purity  of  Templarism,  holding  a  wand  representing  Templarism 
nobler  characteristics  and  beckoning  all  Sir  Knights  of  honest  purpose  forward 
to  the  vantage  ground  of  true-hearted  logical  reason,  where  they  could  see  the 
valley  of  Concord,  m  the  historical  past,  spread  out  before  them,  studded  with  Concord 
the  gems  of  transcendent  achievements ;  of  honest  endeavor;  self-sacrificing 
friendship,  abnegating  enduring  dutious  eflbrt,  all  of  which  had  resulted  for  the 
good  of  Apollo  Commandery ;  lighting  up  its  whole  past  with  the  resplendency 
of  honest  fame,  the  restfulness  of  positive  worth,  and  consecrated  endeavor;  Honestfame. 
and  relegating  despicable  passions  and  errors  to  the  deep  and  unspeak- 
ing  shades  of  oblivion;    and  unfurling  her  Beauseant  aloft,  vivified  as  if 
by  a  breathing  positive  force,  to  be  handed  on  to  us;  and  with  her  escutcheon  Escutcheon 
bright  as  silver,  and  reflecting  back  to  heaven  the  pure  sun-light  of  God,  tarn-  bnght*as^°" 
ished  only  by  the  relativeness  between  finite  beings  and  the  Infinite  One. ' 

As  we  have  indicated  herein,  we  do  not  believe  or  claim  that  all  the  acts  of  Apollo 
Apollo  Commandery  have  been  faultless,  but  do  conscientiously  assert  that 
whatever  errors  have  been  committed  by  minority  or  majority  have  injured  her 
own  members  alone ;  and  that  as  far  as  Templarism  and  the  world  are  con- 
cerned,  that  they  have  derived  benefit  from  her  endeavors,  yes,  and  also  from  the 
experience  of  error  by  which  she  has  herself  suffered.  This  proposition  we  do 
not  believe  can  be  successfully  controverted  by  the  honest  critic;  and  as  for 
others,  our  observation  has  taught  us  that  it  is  a  waste  of  time  to  try  and  reason 
with  the  malicious. 


lo  not 


134 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


Lessons 
taugnt. 


Debt  free. 


Avoid 
prodigal  ex- 
penditures. 


Contempt 
and  scorn. 


The 

minority 
not  Apollo. 

How  much 

has  Apollo 

done  to  aid 

her  Com- 
manders. 


That  Apollo  Commandery  has  been  taught  many  serious  lessons  in  the  past, 
and  will  be  taught  many  more  in  the  future  is  also  true ;  but  we  trust  that  none 
will  be  without  profit. 

*  The  Records  fail  to  show  that  the  Commandery  was  ever  absolutely  free  from 
debt  —although  substantially  so  at  various  times  before,  and  at  the  close  of  the 
years  l88o  and  i88i,— until  the  years  1882  and  1883  ;  or,  that  it  had  ever  con- 
stituted a  permanent  Charity  Fund  until  the  close  of  the  year  1878. 

The  deductions  arrived  at  from  the  lessons  incident  to  an  harrassing  indebted- 
ness and  the  needed  money  sacrifices  to  pay  it  when  most  difficult  to  do  so,  in 
consequence  of  fire  losses  and  general  business  depression  aff-ecting  the  Sir 
Kniahts  on  the  one  hand,  and  the  immolation  of  the  pride  of  elected  officers, 
knightly  loyalty  and  steadfastness  in  1874,  on  the  other ;  and  considering  also  the 
exemplified  malevolence  of  a  do-nothing  minority,  whose  acts  seemed  to  be  fast 
working  disorganization  to  the  Commandery  and  cauung  it  to  be  the  subject  of 
unkind  comment  by  others,  is,  that  a  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar,  desir- 
ing  comfort  and  prosperity,  like  individuals,  should  curtail  desires  and  hospi- 
tality within  her  means,  provide  for  herself  alone  and  refrain  from  prodxgal 
expenditure  in  every  way,  so  that  it  will  be  enabled  out  of  its  own  husbanded 
resources  and  Charity  Fund,  to  meet  all  legitimate  expenditures  without  levying 
an  involuntary  tax  upon  its  members  either  by  assessment  or  importunity. 

We  know  that  -  contempt  and  scorn,  unless  directed  by  nobler  emotions,  are 
as  pernicious  as  they  are  easy  and  vulgar,"  yet  these  passions  seemed  at  times 
to  predominate  over  all  others  when  the  Commandery  was  cursed  with  a  debt- 
incubus;  and  fault-finding  was  a  rule  ;  and  we  are  delighted  to  call  attention  to 
the  notable  Antitheses  to  such  a  condition,  in  the  chivalrous  manner  with  which 
the  Sir  Knights  of  Apollo  Number  One  responded  with  their  contributions  of 
more  than  fifteen  thousand  dollars  in  the  year  1880,  notwithstanding  the  efforts 
of  a  meagre  following  to  prevent  it  when  the  Commandery  was  prosperous  and 
substantially  debt  free.  The  antipodes  of  debt,  and  no  debt,  have  been  thus 
succinctly  presented  by  mentioning  two  events  with  attendant  conditions,  and 
they  furnish  a  subject  worthy  of  serious  reflecUon  ! 

We  are  led  to  be  devoutly  thankful  to  an  All- Wise  Providence  that  the  seem- 
ingly permanent  minority  are  not  Apollo  Commandery  Number  One,  Knights 

'^'l7re'viewing  the  past  the  following  question  arises  !  How  much  has  Apollo 
Commandery  had  to  do  with  supplementing  the  weakness  rather  than  the 
strength  of  some  of  her  Eminent  Commanders  ? 

An  Eminent  Commander  as  the  Chief  Administrative  Officer  is  held  respon- 
sible for  all  that  goes  amiss  during  his  administration.  He  is,  as  it  were  the 
p'vot  around  whi^h  the  Commandery  moves.  To  him  all  look  to  see  tha  plans 
originated  by  either  the  Commandery  or  himself  are  properly  and  promptly  ex  - 
3  He  is  rather  expected  to  draw  "  The  designs  upon  the  Trestle  Board^ 
As  the  Chief  Executive  Officer,  both  himself  and  the  Sir  Knights  expec  tha  he 
1 1  be  consulted  ;  and  he  consequently  becomes  accustomed  to  the  consideraUon 
incidentthereto.    He  is  expected  also,  to  exemplify  m  himself  alone,  the  very 


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quintessence  of  hospitality ;  and  while  a  Sir  Knight  may  be  permitted  to  devote 
his  entire  attention  to  only  a  few,  the  Commander  is  expected  to  minister  to  the 
comfort  and  the  enjoyment  of  all.  If  wine  convivialities  are  indulged  in  he 
has  no  natural  right  of  selecting  a  few  as  Sir  Knights  can,  but  must  be  convivial 
with  all ;  and  human  endurance  is  insufficient  to  withstand  the  strain  and 
he  perchance  becomes  hilarious.  Say,  that  it  is  oft  repeated  during  his  incum- 
bency ;  what  is  the  natural  tendency  ?  When  his  term  of  office  has  expired 
and  he  misses  the  attention,  consideration  and  consultation  he  has  been  taught  to 
expect,  and  few  loving  words  are  volunteered,  and  loving  Knightly  arms  are  not 
extended  to  uphold  him,  what  is  more  natural  than  that  the  imaginary  coldness 
should  seem  to  freeze  him,  and  half  formed  habits  become  fixed  ones  and  wine 
conviviality  for  sociability,  become  conviviality  with  a  few,  as  a  substitute  for 

the  missed  companionship  and  obeisance  of  all,  and  subsequently  a  positive  ^^"^  °f  . 

.        .  1.         J      r  commission 

Vice.    May  God  forgive  his  poor  human  creatures  for  their  forgetfulness  and  and 
their  sins  of  commission  and  omission.  omission. 

While  we  are  opposed  generally  to  prohibitory  legislation  outside  the  Asylum,  Wine 
and  believe  that  a  man  should  have  the  right  as  a  free  moral  agent  when  he  is  f/^slationy 
infringing  no  law  of  the  land  or  interfering  with  the  rights  of  others,  to  do  what 
suits  him  best,  we  are  thoroughly  convinced  that  there  is  an  irrepressible  incom- 
patibility between  one  wearing  a  Templar  uniform  outside  or  inside  of  an 
Asylum,  the  Order  of  Templarism  or  a  Knights  Templar  in  any  of  the  regular 
apartments  where  meetings  of  a  Commandery  are  held,  and  intoxicating 
liquors.  We  do  not  so  much  object  to  their  use,  as  to  their  misuse,  which  will 
inevitably  follow.  A  Knight  Templar  should  be  above  their  use  under  such 
circumstances,  or  he  will  lose  his  influence  upon  those  who  take  upon  them- 
selves the  vows  of  Knighthood  for  the  first  time,  and,  instead  of  doing  good, 
will  inflict  a  positive  injury.  Nothing  which  is  pure  should  lean  its  head  upon 
the  bosom  of  the  habitual  liquor  convivialist  unless  it  is  wished  to  have  it  turn 
to  ashes,  like  everything  which  was  clasped  to  the  breast  of  the  mythical  wan- 
dering Jew  who  was  cursed  with  earthly  immortality.  Reflections  analogous 
to  these  had  caused  Apollo  Commandery  in  1869  to  exclude  intoxicating  liquors 
from  the  Red  Cross  Banquet  Tables  within  the  apartments  occupied  by  the 
Commandery;  and  instigated  them  to  take  a  step  in  advance  of  this  in  1878, 
when  the  following  Resolution — now  a  By-Law — was  adopted  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  Commandery,  with  but  a  few  dissenting  votes : 

That  the  use  of  any  and  all  Spirituous  Liquors,  or  drinks  composed  of  liquors,  shall  be  and  By-Law. 
they  are  hereby  forever  prohibited  in  any  and  all  the  apartments  of  Apollo  Commandery;  and  any 
Sir  Knight  who  shall  drink  any  Spirituous  Liquors  or  Wines  in  any  of  the  apartments  of  the 
Commandery,  or  bring  any  Spirituous  Liquors  of  any  kind  into  the  apartments  of  this  Com- 
mandery, or  knowingly  cause  the  same  to  be  done,  shall  have  charges  preferred  against  him  and 
if  found  guilty  as  charged  shall  be  degraded  from  the  Orders  of  Knighthbod  within  the  discretion 
of  this  Commandery. 

It  will  be  seen  that  Apollo  Commandery, — to  her  everlasting  honor  be  it 
said — had  reflected  over  the  lessons  taught  in  this  behalf  and  by  needed 
legislation  has  sought  to  obviate  all  future  difficulties  and  responsibilities. 


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The 

Records  of 
the  past 
show  that 
slander 
has  been 
indulged  in. 


Censure, 


Comparison, 


A  thunder 
cloud. 


Causes  of 
error. 


Hope  on. 


Consulting  the  records  of  the  past  it  will  also  be  discovered  that  either  at  the 
time  of  the  greatest  depression  or  of  the  greatest  prosperity,  there  has  seemed  to  be 
a  minority  who  were  hypercritical  and  unwarrantably  captious  and  malevolent. 
We  ask,  Is  there  anything  else  so  odious  as  the  passions  of  hatred  and  envy  ?" 
It  seems  to  have  been  almost  proverbial,  that  some  members  who  happened  to  be 
ignorant  of  Templar  law,  and  by  their  acts  have  compelled  the  Eminent  Com- 
mander, as  such,  to  perform  a  disciplinary  duty,  should  esteem  it  personal,  or 
that  their  advocacy  of  a  measure  should  fail  to  meet  with  general  approval,  so 
that  their  anger  would  be  aroused;  or  that  they  should  be  piqued  over  some 
imaginary  affront;  or  be  birred  from  official  preferment  by  the  votes  of  their 
peers  and  try  to  resent  it ;  or  that  they  should  fail  to  have  some  particular  consid- 
eration shown  them  which  had  been  bestowed  upon  others,  thereby  arousing 
their  choler;  so  that  consequent  to  one  or  all  of  these  causes,  they  should  enroll 
themselves  among  those  who  would  not  hesitate  to  indulge  in  vituperation  and 
slander,  both  within  and  without  the  Asylum. 

So  certainly  has  this  been  the  case,  that  in  the  year  1873  Right  Eminent  Sir 
Jonathan  Adams  Allen  offered  a  resolution  censuring  and  deploring  it,  which 
was  adopted  by  the  Commandery.  It  occurred  again  in  the  years  1880  and  1882, 
and  was  indignantly  resented  and  censured  by  the  Commandery  !  The  misrep- 
resentation of  Apollo  No.  I  by  a  minority,  in  each  case  affected  its  reputation  as 
a  Commandery,  and  had  it  been  continued  long  enough  could  not  help  but 
work  an  irreparable  injury. 

The  waters  of  the  Amazon  discolor  the  Ocean  three  hundred  miles  from  its 
mouth,  on  account  of  the  sediment  of  soil  and  decaying  vegetation  within  its 
bosom,  but  compared  to  the  vast  body  of  water  into  which  it  flows,  it  is  infinites- 
imal ;  and  it  is  a  consolation  to  know  that  the  vituperative,  malicious  slander 
of  a  few,  has  had  no  greater  measure  when  compared  to  the  honest  merit  and 
reputation  of  Apollo  Commandery  than  have  the  waters  of  the  Amazon  to  the 
waters  of  the  Ocean. 

One  thunder-cloud  only  fills  a  small  part  of  the  sky;  discharges  itself  and  its 
contiguous  atmosphere  is  purified  thereby. 

We  fail  to  observe  any  other  causes  of  error  in  the  entire  history  of  Apollo 
Commandery,  and  altogether  they  make  up  only  a  small  sun-spot  on  the  face  of 
that  resplendent  orb.  We  yet  devoutly  hope  that  none  will  be  repeated.  We 
hope  that  harmony  and  unity  may  actuate  all  of  its  members.  We  hope  that 
personalities  will  give  way  to  a  grander  fraternity.  We  hope  for  a  glorious 
future  for  the  Commandery  that  has  wrought  through  the  many  years  that  are 
gone,  on  account  of  both  the  living  and  the  dead.  We  hope  for  the  continual 
solace  of  hope,  because  it  beautifies  the  gnarled  trunk  of  bitter  memories  by 
decking  it  with  paradise  flowers,  whose  jewelled  brims  hang  lovingly  upon  it; 
or,  because  she  is  like  the  famous  Gold  of  Ophir  Rose-Tree  on  the  Maddox 
farm  in  Eldorado  County,  California,  which  had  grown  around  and  over  an 
unsightly  oak  fifty  feet  high;  throwing  out  its  splendid  mass  of  golden  flowers, 
and  concealing  the  oak  entirely  from  view  with  a  blaze  of  glory;  stopping  in  its 
upward  progress  only  because  there  was  nothing  upon  which  it  could  climb 


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higher.  Only  for  us  she  makes  the  Gold  of  Ophir  blossoms  reach  from  earth  to 
heaven.  Hope  places  her  arm  under  the  head  of  sleeping  infancy  and  whispers 
such  messages  as  causes  the  dimpled  cheek  to  flush  with  expectant  beauty.  She  ^^^^ 
places  her  hand  in  that  of  Youth  and  prompts  to  new  endeavor.  She  fires  the 
heart  of  Manhood  so  that  he  compasses  the  loftiest  achievements.  She  stands 
at  the  door  of  imprisonment  and  promises  liberty.  "With  deft  fingers  she  smooths 
the  matted  hair  of  vice,  kisses  the  dishonored  forehead  without  pollution,  and 
whispers  of  reform  and  pardon.  She  lingers  by  the  bedside  of  pain,  and  bids 
the  helpless  hope  for  health.  She  holds  the  head  of  the  dying,  presses  her  warm 
lips  to  those  which  are  pallid  and  cold,  and  gently  speaks  of  peace  and  rest 
through  Christ  our  Lord;  evokes  a  smile  on  the  almost  rigid  features,  and 
in  loving  accents  finds  solace  for  living  bereaved  ones  also  by  telling  of  a 
glorious  immortality  for  the  redeemed  ;  and 

Our  ears  are  filled  with  tones  that  none  else  hear, 

Sweet  bits  of  song  dead  Fraters  used  to  sing, 
And  half-remembered  footsteps  echo  near 

Which  none  now  known  in  life  could  to  us  bring. 

Fond  Hope  alone,  can  build  the  stairway  up 

By  which  our  hopes  can  bring  the  angels  down, 
And  e'en  though  we  may  drink  life's  acrid  cup, 

Give  promise  of  the  combat  won  and  crown. 

Our  days  to  do,  alas,  go  by  so  fast. 

And  night  so  quickly  follows  after  day. 
So  soon  our  hands  across  our  breast  are  clasp'd, 

What  work  we  do,  be  it  in  peace,  we  pray. 

Let  Knights  in  truth,  each  other's  faults  condone, 

Crown  him  as  best  who  can  the  most  forgive, 
And  let  all  strive  to  do  those  things  alone 

Which  make  our  lives  ones  fit  to  live. 

Unfurl  our  white-black  Beauseant  on  high 

As  symbol  of  achievements  which  are  grand, 
And  as  it  floats  against  the  azure  sky, 

Beneath  its  folds  let  us  as  Fraters  stand. 


The  Committee  appointed  by  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i  Knights  Templar,  to  prepare  a  history 
from  the  date  of  its  organization  to  date,  having  completed  the  same  to  September  30th,  1884, 
at  the  hands  of  Eminent  Sir  Norman  T.  Cassette,  and  submitted  it  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  at 
a  called  meeting  held  this  28th  day  of  July,  1884,  at  No.  3527  Grand  Boulevard,  the  same  having 
been  read  to  the  Board  of  Trustees,  on  motion,  the  history  as  written  and  read  was  unanimously 
approved. 

H.S.  Tiffany,  ] 
D.  R.  Crego,  Board 
A.  Grannis,  J-  of 

H.  A.  Wheeler,  Trustees. 

J.  H.  McVlCKER, 


HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Original  Charter  of  Apollo  Encampment, 

NO.  1,  KNIGHT  TEMPLARS, 


The  General  Grand  Encampment  of  Knight  Templars  of  the 
United  States  of  America, 
To  whom  it  may  Concern,  Greeting  : 

Whereas,  heretofore,  to  wit  :  On  the  fifteenth  day  of  May,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty-five,  a  Dispensation  was 
granted  to  certain  Sir  Knights  to  open  and  hold  an  Encampment  of  Knight 
Templars,  and  the  appendant  Orders,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  in  the  county  of 
Cook,  and  the  State  of  Illinois,  by  the  name  of  Apollo  Encampment,  No.  i  ; 

And  Whereas,  Application  has  been  made  to  this  General  Grand 
Encampment  for  a  perpetual  Charter  or  Warrant  to  enable  them  to  con- 
tinue in  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  a  regularly  constituted  Encampment, 
and  a  copy  of  their  By-Laws,  and  of  the  minutes  of  their  proceedings,  having 
been  submitted  for  our  inspection  and  approval,  and  no  cause  adverse  to  the 
granting  of  prayer  of  said  applicants  to  us  appearing : 

Now  Know  ye,  That  We,  the  General  Grand  Encampment  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  reposing  special  confidence  and  trust  in  the 
fidelity,  zeal  and  Masonic  ability  of  the  Officers  and  members  of  the  said 
Encampment,  and  for  the  purpose  of  diffusing  the  benefits  of  the  Order  and 
promoting  the  happiness  of  man,  by  virtue  of  the  power  in  us  vested,  do,  BY 
these  presents,  recognize  said  Encampment  as  regularly  constituted  and 
established  under  the  jurisdiction  of  this  General  Grand  Encampment,  with 
full  and  adequate  powers  to  confer  the  several  degrees  of  Knights  of  the 
Red  Cross,  Knight  Templars,  and  Knights  of  Malta,  upon  such  person 
or  persons  possessing  the  required  qualifications,  as  they  may  think  proper. 
And  we  do  also  recognize  the  present  officers  and  members  of  said  Encamp- 
ment, with  continuance  of  the  said  powers  and  privileges,  to  them  and  their 
successors  forever.  Provided,  nevertheless,  That  the  said  Officers  and 
members,  and  their  successors,  pay  due  respect  to  our  said  General  Grand 
Encampment,  and  to  the  Constitution  and  edicts  thereof,  and  in  no  way  remove 
the  ancient  Land-marks  of  our  Order,  otherwise  this  Charter,  and  all  things 
therein  contained,  to  be  void  and  of  no  effect. 

Given  at  the  city  of  Columbus,  in  the  state  of  Ohio,  this  seventeenth  (17th) 
day  of  September,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
forty-seven,  and  of  our  Order  seven  hutidred  and  twenty-nine. 

By  order  of  the  General  Grand  Encampment. 

CHARLES  OILMAN, 
[l.  s  ]  G.  G.  Recorder. 


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CHARTER  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY. 

NO.  i,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


The  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
To  WHOM  it  may  Concern,  Greeting: 

Whereas,  heretofore,  to  wit  :  On  the  seventeenth  day  of  September,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  forty-seven,  a  Charter  was 
granted  to  Sirs  William  Frederick  Walker,  John  Roman  Case,  William  Stuart, 
William  M.  D.  Ryan,  A.  B.  Lewis,  S.  H.  Gilbert,  Isaac  Haight,  G.  C.  Blodgett, 
John  Barney  and  Henry  Brown,  by  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United 
States  of  America,  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  to  open  and  hold  a  Commandery 
OF  Knights  Templar  and  the  appendant  Orders  at  Chicago,  in  the  County  of 
Cook  and  State  of  Illinois,  to  be  known  as  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i. 

And  Whereas,  Said  Charter  was  destroyed  by  fire  on  the  ninth  day  of 
October,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-one, 
and  application  having  been  made  to  this  Grand  Commandery  for  a  renewal  of 
said  Charter  or  Warrant  to  enable  them  to  continue  in  all  the  rights  and  privi- 
leges of  a  Regularly  Constituted  Commandery. 

Now  Know  ye,  That  We,  the  Grand  Commandery  of  Knights  Templar 
OF  THE  State  of  Illinois,  reposing  special  confidence  and  trust  in  the  fidelity, 
zeal,  and  knightly  courtesy  of  the  Officers  and  Knights  of  the  said  Commandery, 
and  for  the  purpose  of  diffusing  the  benefits  of  the  Order  and  promoting  the 
happiness  of  man,  by  virtue  of  the  power  in  us  vested,  do  by  these  presents 
recognize  said  Commandery,  to  be  known  as  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  as 
regularly  constituted  and  established  under  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Grand  Com- 
mandery, with  full  and  adequate  powers  to  confer  the  several  Orders  of  Knights 
of  the  Red  Cross,  Knights  Templar,  and  Knights  of  Malta  upon  such 
person  or  persons  possessing  the  requisite  qualifications  as  they  may  think  proper, 
and  we  do  also  recognize  the  present  Officers  and  Knights  of  the  said  Com- 
mandery with  continuance  of  the  same  powers  and  privileges  to  them  and  their 
successors  forever,  except  that  the  Officers  of  said  Commandery  shall  not  be 
entitled  to  act  as  members  of  our  Grand  Commandery  until  they  are  duly  elected 
and  installed  under  this  Charter.  Provided,  nevertheless.  That  the  Officers 
and  Knights,  and  their  successors,  pay  due  respect  to  our  said  Grand 
Commandery,  the  Statutes  and  Regulations  thereof,  and  to  the  Constitution  and 

Note. — The  original  Charter  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar,  granted  by 
the  Grand  Commandery  of  Illinois  in  1857,  was  destroyed  during  the  great  fire  of  October  9,  1871, 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR. 


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Edicts  of  the  Grand  Encampment  of  the  United  States  of  America,  and  in  no 
way  remove  the  ancient  landmarks  of  our  Order ;  otherwise,  this  Charter,  and 
all  things  therein  contained  to  be  void  and  of  no  effect. 

Given  at  Chicago  in  the  State  of  Illinois  this  twenty-fourth  day  of  October,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-one  and  of 
the  Order  seven  hundred  and  fifty-three. 


Wiley  M.  Egan, 

Deputy  Grand  Commander, 

Daniel  Dustin, 

Grand  Generalissimo. 

James  A.  Hawley, 

Grand  Captain  General. 

Attest: 
James  H.  Miles, 

Grand  Recorder. 


John  M.  Pearson, 

Grand  Commander. 


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CHARTER  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY. 

NO.  1,  OF  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR, 

CORPORATE. 


State  of  Illinois, 

Department  of  State, 
George  H.  Harlow,  Secretary  of  State. 

To  ALL  TO  WHOM  THESE  PRESENTS  SHALL  COME,  GREETING: 

Whereas,  a  certificate,  duly  signed  and  acknowledged,  having  been  filed  in 
the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  on  the  loth  day  of  March,  A.  D.  1873, 
the  organization  of  the  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i  of  Knights  Templar, 
under  and  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  "An  Act  concerning  Corpora- 
tions," approved  April  18,  1872,  and  in  force  July  i,  1872,  a  copy  of  which 
certificate  is  hereto  attached. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  George  H.  Harlow,  Secretary  of  State,  of  the  State  of 
Illinois,  by  virtue  of  the  powers  and  duties  vested  in  me  by  law  do  hereby  certify 
that  the  said  Apollo  Commandery  No.  i  of  Knights  Templar  is  a  legally 
organized  Corporation  under  the  Laws  of  this  State. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I  hereto  set  my  hand 
and  cause  to  be  affixed  the  Great  Seal  of 
State.  Done  at  the  City  of  Springfield  this 
lOth  day  of  March,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy- 
three  and  of  the  Independence  of  the  United 
States  the  ninety  seventh. 

GEO.  H.  HARLOW, 

Secretary  of  State. 


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TO  ALL  KNIGHTS  OF  THE 

Illustrious  Order  of  the  Red  Cross, 

AND  OF 

The  Valiant  and  Magnanimous  Order  of 

KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR 

TO  V/HOM  THESE  PRESENTS  MAY  COME,  GREETING: 

^\)^<$>  IS  to  6ertlfy,  tbat 
Sir  :    _  Knight, 

IS  A  MEMBER  OF 

0P0LLe  60MMANDERY,  R0,  1, 

KNIG-HTS  TEMPLilR, 

STATIONED  AT  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS. 

And  as  such  we  commend  him  to  the  courteous  and  knightly  regard  of  valiant 
Templars  wherever  dispersed  around  the  Globe. 

In  testimony  whereof^  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  and  caused 

the  seal  of  our  Commandery  to  be  fixed  this  

day  of.  A.  D,  i88  A.  O.  7  

£  Eminent  Commander, 

Recorder. 


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OF 

Apollo  Commandery, 

Ng,  1, 
i^NIGHTS  ^EMPLAR. 

1884. 


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OF 

Apollo  Commandery,  No,  1,  Knights  Templar, 

STATIONED  AT 

Chicago,  Cook  County,  State  of  Illinois, 


Adopted  by  the  Commandery.    Approved  by  the  Grand  Commandery,  Oct.  25,  i88(. 
And  Amendments  since  adopted, 


ARTICLE  I. 

OF  THE  COMMANDERY. 

Section  i.  This  Commandery  shall  be  known  and  styled  as  Apollo 
Commandery,  No.  i,  Knights  Templar,  stationed  at  Chicago,  111. 

Sec.  2.  This  Commandery  shall  consist  of  an  Eminent  Commander, 
Generalissimo,  Captain  General,  Prelate,  Senior  Warden,  Junior  Warden, 
Treasurer,  Recorder,  Standard  Bearer,  Sword  Bearer,  Warder,  Captain  of  the 
Guard,  and  as  many  members  as  may  be  found  convenient  for  work  and 
discipline. 


ARTICLE  II. 
OF  conclaves. 

Section  i.  The  Annual  Conclave  of  this  Commandery  shall  be  held  on  the 
first  Tuesday  of  December  in  each  year. 

Sec.  2.  The  Stated  Conclaves  of  this  Commandery  shall  be  held  on  the 
first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month,  from  November  ist  to  April  ist, 
at  7.30  o'clock  p.  m.,  and  all  other  months  at  8  o* clock  p.  m.,  for  the  transac- 
tion of  hnsmess.—Aifo/>^ed  Jan.  77,  1882. 


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Sec.  3.    The  order  of  business  at  Stated  Conclaves  shall  be  as  follows  : 

1.  Reading  of  Records, 

2.  Receiving  and  Referring  Petitions. 

3.  Reports  of  Committees  on  Petitions 

4.  Balloting. 

5.  Unfinished  Business. 

6.  New  Business. 

7.  Work. 

Sec.  4.  Special  Conclaves  may  be  held  at  such  time  as  the  Emment 
Commander  shall  designate. 


ARTICLE  III. 

OF  OFFICERS. 

Section  i.  The  first  eight  officers  named  in  Sec.  2,  of  Art.  i,  shall  be 
elected  by  vote  at  the  Annual  Conclave,  and  a  majority  of  the  votes  of  all 
members  present  shall  be  necessary  to  constitute  a  choice. 

Sec.  2.  Prior  to  his  installation  the  Eminent  Commander  shall  appoint  the 
remaining  four  officers. 

Seg.  3.  The  above  officers  shall  be  installed  as  soon  after  election  as 
practicable. 

Sec.  4.  The  duties  of  the  officers  shall  be  such  as  the  traditions,  statutes 
and  regulations  of  the  Order  have  established. 

Sec  5  The  Treasurer  and  Recorder  shall  make  and  place  their  Annual 
Report  in  the  hands  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  at  least  one  week  prior  to  the 
Annual  Conclave. 

Sec  6  The  corporate  powers  of  Apollo  Commandery,  No.  i,  of  Knights 
Templar,'  shall  be  vested  in  a  Board  of  five  Trustees,  who  shall  be  elected  by 
ballot  at  the  Annual  Conclave,  and  the  first  three  officers  of  the  Commandery 
shall  be  elected  members  of  said  Board. 

Sec  7  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  examine  and  report  upon  the  Annual 
Reports  of  the  Treasurer  and  Recorder  at  the  Annual  Conclave,  and  all  bills, 
claims  or  other  matters  of  a  fiscal  character,  except  upon  contracts,  shall  be 
presented  to  the  Commandery  at  a  Stated  Conclave,  and  no  bills  shall  be  paid 
until  audited  by  the  Trustees,  nor  except  upon  a  vote  of  this  Commandery,  and 
all  bills  and  claims  against  the  Commandery  shall  be  audited  by  this  Board, 
and  by  them  be  presented  to  the  Commandery,  and  at  such  times  as  the  Eminent 
Commander  may  direct;  and  at  the  close  of  their  term  of  office,  make  such 
financial  recommendations  to  the  Commandery  as  in  their  judgment  is  ior  the 
interest  of  the  Body.  This  Board  shall  also  have  general  supervision  of  the 
finances  of  the  Commandery,  making  such  reports  thereon  as  the  exigencies  ot 
the  case  may  require,  or  as  directed  by  the  Commandery. 


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ARTICLE  IV. 

OF  FEES,  DUES  AND  MEMBERSHIP. 

Section  I.  The  fee  for  conferring  the  Orders  shall  be  seventy-five  dollars; 
thirty- five  dollars  for  the  Order  of  the  Red  Cross,  and  forty  dollars  for  the 
Order  of  the  Temple,  which  shall  in  all  cases  be  paid  before  the  Orders  are 
conferred. 

Sec.  2.  Any  applicant  having  been  elected  to  receive  the  Orders  of  Knight- 
hood, and  failing  to  present  himself  for  said  Orders  for  the  space  of  six 
months,  shall  forfeit  said  election,  except  for  satisfactory  reasons,  and  can  only 
be  received  by  a  new  petition. 

Sec.  3.  The  fee  for  membership  shall  be  ^lo,  which  shall  accompany  the 
petition,  and  should  the  applicant  be  rejected  it  shall  be  returned  to  him. 

Sec.  4.  Any  Sir  Knight  having  been  elected  to  membership,  who  shall  not 
appear  in  the  Asylum  and  sign  these  By-laws  within  twelve  months,  forfeits 
said  election,  together  with  the  fee  accompanying  his  application. 

Sec.  5.  Every  member  of  this  Commandery,  except  Life  and  Honorary 
Members,  shall  pay  to  the  Recorder  annually  the  sum  of  ten  dollars,  in  semi- 
annual installments  of  five  dollars  each,  payable  on  or  before  the  first  Stated 
Conclaves  of  June  and  December  of  each  year. — Adopted  Nov.  ist,  1881. 

Sec.  6.  Any  member  of  this  Commandery  not  indebted  for  dues  or  other- 
wise, may,  upon  application  at  any  Stated  Conclave,  and  by  vote  of  the 
members  present,  become  a  Life  Member,  by  paying  into  the  treasury  thereof 
the  sum  of  ^100,  thereby  retaining  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  active 
membership:  Provided,  however,  that  he  shall  remain,  as  heretofore,  subject 
to  all  the  Statutes  and  Regulations  of  the  Order,  and  in  case  of  expulsion, 
shall  forfeit  the  sum  so  paid  for,  and  all  the  privileges  of,  said  Life  Membership. 

Sec.  7.  Any  member  of  this  Commandery  who  has  regularly  and  continu- 
ously paid  all  dues  and  assessments  against  him  for  twenty  years,  shall  upon 
vote  of  the  Commandery  become  a  Life  Member,  under  same  provisions  as  in 
Sec.  6,  this  Article. 

Sec.  8.  The  funds  arising  from  Life  Membership  shall  constitute  a  "  Life 
Membeiship  Fund,"  to  be  kept  intact  under  the  charge  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  securely  invested  by  them,  and  only  the  interest  thereof  may  be 
used  from  time  to  time.  Provided,  that  all  fees  for  Life  Memberships  which 
have  been  or  may  be  hereafter  received  shall  immediately  revert  to  the  Charity 
Fund  of  Apollo  Commandery  when  the  Life  Member  who  shall  have  paid  the 
same  shall  have  died,  taken  his  dimit  or  hQ^xv^^^^W^^.— Adopted  Jan.  2,  1883. 


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Sec.  9.  This  Commandery  may  elect  Sir  Knights  or  other  Templar  bodies 
to  Honorary  Membership;  such  election,  however,  does  not  confer  the  right  to 
vote,  nor  any  rank  or  standing  therein,  but  is  merely  complimentary. 

Sec.  10.  The  Treasurer  and  Recorder  of  this  Commandery  shall  each  give 
bonds  in  the  sum  of  tv^o  thousand  dollars,  which  bonds  must  be  approved  by 
this  Commandery  before  these  officers  can  be  installed  into  their  respective 
offices. 

ARTICLE  V. 

OF  PETITIONS. 

Section  i.  Every  petition  for  the  Orders  or  for  Membership,  shall  be 
recommended  by  two  members  of  this  Commandery.  Such  petition  must  be 
presented  at  a  Stated  Conclave,  when  it  shall  be  referred  to  a  committee  of 
three,  who  may  report  at  the  next  Stated  Conclave,  the  character  of  which 
report,  whether  favorable  or  unfavorable,  shall  not  be  of  record;  but  no  ballot 
can  be  had  until  the  expiration  of  four  weeks  from  the  date  of  presentation, 
unless  by  written  permission  of  the  Grand  Commander. 

Sec.  2.  The  petition  of  one  who  has  been  rejected  cannot  be  renewed  until 
at  least  six  months  after  such  rejection. 

Sec.  3.  Objections  to  a  petitioner  who  has  been  elected  to  receive  the  Orders 
of  Knighthood  shall  have  the  same  force  as  a  rejection  of  his  application. 

ARTICLE  VI. 

OF  DIMITS. 

Section  i.  A  dimit  maybe  granted  to  any  member,  (excepting  the  first 
three  officers,)  without  a  vote  of  the  Commandery,  upon  a  request  made  in 
open  Commandery  at  a  Stated  Conclave  :  Provided,  his  dues  shall  have  been 
paid,  and  no  charges  are  pending  against  him. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

OF  EQUIPMENTS. 

Section  i.  The  uniform  of  this  Commandery  is  that  prescribed  by  the 
Grand  Commandery  of  the  State,  and  it  is  expected  that  every  Sir  Knight  will 
equip  himself  as  soon  as  practicable. 

Sec.  2.  Every  Sir  Knight  shall  submit  his  equipments  to  the  Captain 
General  for  his  inspection,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  see  that  they  conform 
to  the  required  regulations. 


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ARTICLE  VIII. 

OF  DISCIPLINE. 

Section  i.  It  is  hereby  made  the  imperative  duty  of  the  Recorder  to  report 
at  the  first  Stated  Conclave  in  January  of  each  year,  the  names  of  all  members 
in  arrears  for  dues  for  one  year,  when,  if  not  excused  by  a  vote  of  the  members 
present,  the  Eminent  Commander  shall  order  a  personal  summons  to  be  sent  to 
each  of  them  to  appear  at  the  next  Stated  Conclave,  and  show  cause  why 
charges  should  not  be  preferred  against  them  for  disregard  of  their  Knightly 
obligations.  If  they  do  not  appear  in  answer  to  the  summons  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Captain  General  to  prefer  charges  against  them,  when  they  may  be 
suspended  from  membership  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  Knights  present  at  a 
Stated  Conclave. 

Sec.  2,  When  charges  are  preferred  against  a  member,  they  shall  be  in 
writing,  and  such  action  had  thereon  as  the  Statutes  and  Regulations  of  the 
Grand  Commandery  direct. 

Sec.  3.  If  a  member  be  expelled  or  suspended  from  this  Commandery, 
notice  shall  be  given  thereof  to  the  Grand  Commandery  and  such  other 
Templar  bodies  as  the  nature  of  the  case  may  require. 


ARTICLE  IX. 

OF  CHARITY  FUND. 

Section  i.  That  there  shall  bean  amount  of  money  provided  which  shall 
constitute  and  be  known  as  the  *'  Charity  Fund  of  Apollo  Commandery,"  and 
shall  consist  of  all  moneys  especially  set  apart  for  that  purpose  and  which  may 
be  donated  therefor,  and  no  part  nor  the  whole  of  such  fund  shall  be  used  for 
any  purpose  whatever  except  that  for  which  it  is  designed,  namely, 
"  Charity;  "  Provided,  however,  that  upon  application  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Commandery  and  by  a  concurrent  vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present 
at  any  Stated  Conclave,  the  whole  or  any  part  of  said  Charity  Fund  may  be 
loaned  to  the  General  Fund,  the  same  to  be  refunded  with  interest  at  the  rate  of 
six  per  cent,  per  annum. — Adopted  January  f,  i8yg;  Amended  March  2,  1880. 

Sec.  2.  That  the  revenue  to  said  Charity  Fund  shall  be  derived  from  the 
following  sources,  viz,  :  Five  per  cent,  of  the  gross  amount  of  the  annual  dues 
which  may  be  collected  from  the  members ;  also  five  per  cent,  of  all  the  fees 
accruing  from  the  conferring  of  the  Orders  and  for  membership  in  the  Com- 
mandery, and  also  all  voluntary  contributions.  The  Commandery  shall  also 
pay  into  said  Fund  the  prescribed  interest  on  all  bonds  held  by  it  for  account 
of  "  Life  Memberships." 


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Sec.  3.  That  when  the  funds  in  said  Charity  Fund  shall  amount  to  five 
hundred  dollars  the  Trustees  of  the  Commandery  shall  invest  the  same  in  U.  S., 
or  city,  or  other  interest  bearing  bonds,  and  shall  thereafter  invest  in  like 
manner  whenever  the  surplus  in  said  fund  shall  amount  to  $100.00.  When  the 
principal  sum  of  said  Charity  Fund  shall  amount  to  $2,000.00  then  the  interest 
only  accruing  thereon  may  be  used  for  charity.  Provided,  that  until  said 
$2,000.00  shall  have  accumulated  the  aggregate  amount  of  money  disbursed 
shall  at  no  time  exceed  one-half  the  amount  standing  to  credit  of  said  "Charity 
Fund." 

Sec.  4.  That  all  moneys  appropriated  for  charity  shall  be  by  a  concurren 
vote  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present  at  any  Stated  Conclave  of  the 
Commandery;  Provided,  that  the  first  three  officers  of  the  Commandery  are 
hereby  constituted  a  Charity  Committee  and  may,  during  the  interim  between 
Stated  Conclaves,  disburse  for  purposes  of  charity  in  its  discretion  not  to  exceed 
$25.00  for  any  one  object,  such  action  to  be  reported  at  the  next  Stated 
Conclave 

Sec.  5.  That  all  moneys  herein  provided  for  the  Charity  Fund  shall  be  paid 
over  quarterly,  commencing  on  the  first  day  of  April,  1879,  and  every  three 
months  thereafter,  and  that  the  Kt.  Recorder  and  Treasurer  shall  keep  separate 
detailed  accounts  of  all  receipts  and  disbursements  of  said  Fund,  and  make 
separate  detailed  reports  of  the  Charity  Fund  whenever  required. 

Sec.  6.  That  from  and  after  this  date,  one  half  of  all  the  fees  received  from 
*' Life  Member-ship  "  be  paid  into  the  General  Fund  of  the  Commandery,  the 
same  to  be  invested  in  such  interest  bearing  bonds  as  the  Trustees  may  select ; 
and  the  other  half  to  be  paid  into  the  Charity  Fund. 

Sec.  7.  That  the  Charity  Fund  be  charged  with  a  per  capita  tax  of  the 
Grand  Commandery  on  all  Sir  Knights  who  have  become  "  Life  Members  "  by 
payment  of  the  regular  fee  since  the  adoption  of  the  Resolutions  of  the 
Commandery  establishing  said  Charity  Fund. 


ARTICLE  X. 

OF  FUNERALS. 

Section  i.  That  the  total  membership  of  this  Commandery  be  equally 
divided  into  five  sections,  the  numerical  status  of  each  section  to  be  thereafter 
kept  uniform  by  transferring  from  one  section  to  another  and  by  assigning  new 
members  as  occasion  may  require. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  five  sections  shall  respectively  be  placed  "  under  call  "  to 
respond  in  the  order  in  which  circumstances  may  require. 

Sec.  3.  In  the  event  of  a  Death  or  a  Funeral  requiring  the  presence  of 
Apollo  Commandery,  the  Recorder,  by  order  of  the  Eminent  Commander,  shall 
mail  a  notice  to  each  of  the  Resident  Knights  of  the  section  which  shall  at  the 
time  be  "  under  call,"  commencing  with  No.  i,  and  so  on,  requesting  their 


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attendance,  and  shall  also  cause  to  be  inserted  a  general  notice  in  the  daily 
press  to  all  members  of  the  Commandery  of  each  and  every  funeral  in  which 
this  Commandery  may  take  part. 

Sec.  4.  All  notices  issued  for  the  purpose  herein  provided  shall  be  deemed 
to  be  of  same  force  and  authority  as  like  notices  under  seal  of  the  Commandery, 
and  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  every  Sir  Knight  receiving  such  notice,  to 
attend  in  person  or  send  an  excuse  satisfactory  to  this  Commandery. 

ARTICLE  XI. 

OF  SPIRITUOUS  LIQUORS. 

Section  i.  That  the  use  of  any  and  all  Spirituous  Liquors,  or  drinks  com- 
posed of  liquors,  shall  be  and  they  are  hereby  forever  prohibited  in  any  and  all 
the  apartments  of  Apollo  Commandery ;  and  any  Sir  Knight  who  shall  drink 
any  Spirituous  Liquors  or  Wines  in  any  of  the  apartments  of  the  Commandery, 
or  bring  any  Spirituous  Liquors  of  any  kind  into  the  apartments  of  this  Com- 
mandery, or  knowingly  cause  the  same  to  be  done,  shall  have  charges  preferred 
against  him,  and  if  found  guilty  as  charged  shall  be  degraded  from  the  Orders 
of  Knighthood  within  the  discretion  of  this  Commandery. 

ARTICLE  XII. 

OF  MERITS  OR  DEMERITS  OF  CANDIDATES. 

Section  i.  That  any  discussion  upon  the  merits  or  demerits  of  candidates 
for  the  Orders  in  this  Commandery,  after  the  Committee  have  reported,  is 
improper  and  inconsistent  with  the  secrecy  of  the  ballot. 

ARTICLE  XII.. 

OF  AMENDMENTS. 

Section  i.  Amendments  must  be  offered  at  a  Stated  Conciave,  ana  no 
action  can  be  had  thereon  until  the  succeeding  Stated  Conclave ;  and  every 
amendment  shall  require  the  consent  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  for 
its  adoption. 


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NAMES  OF  COUNCIL  EACH  YEAR, 


Year. 

Eminent  Commander. 

Generalissimo. 

Captain  General. 

it 

Total 
M'b'ship 

Xo40  U . U 

William  rrederick  Walker, 

John  Roman  Case. 

William  Stuart,  > 

14 

25 

1846  " 

W  illiam  b  rederick  Walker. 

John  Roman  Case, 

William  Stuart. 

5 

30 

1847  " 

William  iTederick  Walker. 

John  Roman  Case. 

William  Stuart. 

18 

38 

1848 

John  Roman  Case. 

Samuel  Hoard. 

Charles  Robert  Starkweather 

5 

48 

1849 

John  Roman  Case. 

Carding  Jackson. 

W.  A.  Thompson. 

10 

56 

1850 

John  Roman  Case. 

Carding  Jackson. 

Luther  March. 

0 

63 

1851 

John  Roman  Case. 

Charles  Robert  Starkweather 

Charles  Follansbee. 

5 

53 

1852 

John  Roman  Case. 

Charles  Follansbee, 

William  Henry  Davis. 

2 

50 

1853 

Keuben  iayler. 

William  Henry  Davis. 

Carleton  Drake. 

4 

52 

1854 

James  Van  Zant  Blaney. 

William  Henry  Davis. 

Albert  Hayden. 

15 

65 

1855 

John  Herman  Bird. 

Carleton  Drake. 

Enoch  Bunker  Stevens. 

7 

70 

1856 

Thomas  Shirley. 

William  Henry  Davis. 

Joseph  Filkins, 

25 

90 

1857 

Hosmer  Allen  Johnson. 

Charles  Robert  Starkweather. 

Robert  Harris  Foss. 

16 

119 

1858 

William  Wallace  iVlitcnell. 

Charles  Robert  Starkweather. 

Robert  Harris  Foss. 

10 

90 

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William  Wallace  Mitchell. 

Robert  Harris  Foss. 

Joshua  Howell  Gest. 

16 

105 

1860 

George  W^aite  Deering. 

Robert  Harris  Foss. 

Daniel  Cameron,  Jr. 

6 

110 

1861 

George  Waite  Deering, 

Henry  Collings  Ranney. 

Eliphaz  Warner  Jones. 

8 

97 

1862 

Henry  Collings  Ranney. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Patrick, 

Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut. 

3 

100 

1863 

Vincent  liumbard  Hurlbut. 

Gilbert  Richard  Smith. 

Wiley  Michael  Egan. 

18 

125 

1864 

Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Patrick. 

Wiley  Michael  Egan. 

32 

152 

1865 

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Joseph  Addison  Montgomery. 

29 

175 

1866 

Benjamin  Franklin  Patrick, 

Wiley  Michael  Egan. 

James  Hodge  Miles. 

54 

229 

1867 

Vincent  Lumbard  Hurlbut. 

Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney. 

Charles  Homan  Brower. 

44 

240 

1868 

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William  Henry  Gale. 

Charles  Homan  Brower. 

33 

273 

1869 

Theodore  Tuthill  Gurney. 

Samuel  Brown, 

Eugene  Burritt  Myers. 

41 

314 

1870 

Charles  Homan  Brower, 

Eugine  Burritt  Myers. 

Francis  Hervey  Nichols, 

35 

340 

1871 

Eugine  Burritt  Myers. 

Francis  Hervey  Nichols, 

Robert  Coles  Garrabrant. 

20 

348 

1872 

James  Hodge  M^iles. 

Ueorge  Kedneld  Chittenden, 

Charles  Homan  Brower. 

14 

347 

1873 

James  Hodge  Miles. 

Walter  Augustus  Stevens. 

Tracy  Town  Oviatt. 

21 

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Walter  A.  Stevens,  Jan.  to  June 

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Eugene  B.  Myers,June  to  Dec. 

George  Hinman  Laflin. 

Charles  Homan  Brower. 

25 

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Eugene  Burritt  Myers. 

George  Hinman  Laflin. 

Charles  Homan  Brower, 

30 

362 

1876 

Eugene  Burritt  Myers. 

Norman  Theodore  Gassette. 

Charles  Homan  Brower. 

16 

372 

1877 

Norman  Theodore  Gassette. 

Amos  Grannis. 

Gilbert  Mortimer  Holmes, 

89 

471 

1878 

Norman  Theodore  Gassette, 

Reuben  True  Pettengill. 

Gilbert  Mortimer  Holmes. 

66 

531 

1879 

Norman  Theodore  Gassette, 

Amos  Grannis. 

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567 

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Norman  Theodore  Gassette. 

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635 

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Henry  Stanton  Tiffany. 

David  Ray  Crego. 

46 

639 

Norman  Theodore  Gassette. 

Henry  Stanton  Tiffany. 

David  Ray  Crego. 

33 

631 

1884 

Henry  Stanton  Tiffany.  j 

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216  HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS   TEMPLAR.  217 


LIFE  MEMBERS. 


Eugene  Burritt  Myers.   September   7,  1871 

William  Austin  Thrall   October       i,  1871 

Charles  Ranney  Vandercook   January     21,  1873 

Edward  Wallace  Morrison   April  7,  1874 

Vinxent  Lumbard  Hurlbut   July  7,  1874 

Alson  Ellis  Clark   July  7.  1874 

Norman  Theodore  Cassette   August       4,  1874 

Henry  Stanton  Tiffany.....   August        4,  1874 

Francis  Hervey  Nichols   August       18,  1874 

James  Hubert  McVicker   August       18,  1874 

Timothy  Mathew  Bradley   September    i,  1874 

John  Sutton   September    i,  1874 

Lester  Asahel  Talcott   September    i,  1874 

Francis  Thomas  Croxon   September    i,  1874 

James  Swift  Bassett   September  15,  1874 

John  Clark  Hilton   September  15,  1874 

James  Hoge  Miles   November    3,  1874 

George  Hinman  Laflin   December  15,  1874 

Charles  Hampson  Lane     January       5,  1875 

Thomas  Mifflin  Jones   January       5,  1875 

Walter  Augustus  Stevens   January       5,  1875 

Charles  Homan  Brower   December    7,  1875 

Frederick  Augustus  Wheeler   December  21,  1875 

Hosmer  Allan  Johnson   January       4,  1876 

Gardner  Spring  Chapin   January      18,  1876 

William  Wallace  King   January      18,  1876 

Orvis  Porter  Baker   February      i,  1876 

Anson  Bushnell  Miner   March        7,  1876 

Henry  Clay  Nutt   March         7,  1876 

John  Calvin  McCord   April         18,  1876 

John  O'Neil   April         18,  1876 

George  Thomas  Williams   May  16,  1876 

Robert  Harris  Foss   September    5,  1876 

Otto  Herman  Matz   November    7,  1876 

William  Aldrich   November  21,  1876 

Amos  Grannis   November  21,  1876 

James  Spears  Case   November  21,  1876 

Edward  Cook   November  21,  1876 


218 


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Homer  Nash  Hibbard.....   December  5,  1876 

James  Harry  Tileston  De  Luce   December  5,  1876 

William  Henry  Reid   December  5,  1876 

Howell  Gardner  Pulling   December  5,  1876 

Eliphalet  Nott  Tillottson   December  5,  1876 

Abraham  Charles  Potter   December  5,  1876 

William  E.  McHenry   December  5,  1876 

Ransom  Williams  Dunham   December  5,  1876 

Jeremiah  Schureman  Thompson   December  5,  1876 

John  R.  Hoxie   February  13,  1877 

Enoch  Bunker  Stevens   July  3,  1877 

John  Stewart   November  28,  1879 

Robert  Coles  Garrabrant......   September  20,  1881 

Franklin  Parmelee   September  20,  1881 

Horatio  Nelson  Hurlbut   January  2,  1883 

George  Appleton  Meech   January  15,  1884 

William  Tileston  De  Luce   October  16,  1877 

Daniel  Francis  Crilly   December  4,  1877 

Joseph  Rolston  Dunlop   December  4,  1877 

Oscar  William  Barrett    December  4,  1877 

Laban  Beecher  Dixon   December  4,  1877 

Francis  M.  Bradshaw   December  18,  1877 

James  Eugene  Beaver   January  15,  1878 

Hiram  Calvin  Wells  Cowdery   February  18,  1879 

Henry  R.  Shergold   June  3,  1879 

Joshua  Green  Woods     December  2,  1879 

Edwin  Bean   February  3,  1880 

Belden  Farrand  Culver   February  3,  1880 

George  Hakes  Van  Pelt   February  3,  1880 

William  Harbron  Turner   February  3,  1880 

Jonathan  Adams  Allen   November  4,  1884 

George  B.  Carpenter   November  4,  1884 

Albert  George  Garfield   November  4,  1884 

Van  Hollis  Higgins   November  4,  1884 

James  Smith   November  4,  1884 

Martin  Ryerson   November  4,  1884 

Elbridge  Micajah  Horton   November  4,  1884 

Leverett  Barker  Sidway   November  18,  1884 


NO.   I,  KNIGHTS  TEMPLAR.  219 


HONORARY  MEMBERS. 


Sir  Robert  Keith   May  3,  1864 

Sir  D.  Frost   June  21,  1864 

Sir  Charles  Scott   May  i,  1866 

R.  E.  Sir  Charles  Edward  Hunger   November  19,  1867 

E.  Sir  A.  G.  Hibbard   November  19,  1867 

Sir  Charles  Follansbee   March        31,  1868 

Sir  Hugh  Logan   March       31,  1868 

Sir  Theodore  H.  Tilton   July  21,  1868 

Rev.  Sir  John  W.  Healey......   November  15,  1870 

V.  E.  Sir  Theodore  Sutton  Parvin   December  12,  1871 

R.  E.  Sir  Pitkin  C.  Wright   December  12,  1871 

Sir  Albert  Hayden   September    i,  1872 

Sir  Laurin  Palmer  Milliard   February      3,  1874 

R.  E.  Sir  James  Francis  Aglar   July  7,  1874 

M.  E.  Sir  William  Sewall  Gardner   November    3,  1874 

R.  E.  Sir  Enoch  Terry  Carson   November    3,  1874 

R.  E.  Sir  Samuel  Crocker  Lawrence   November    3,  1874 

Sir  John  Wesley  Doane   November    3,  1874 

R.  E.  Sir  R.  N.  Brown   December  15,  1874 

R.  E.  Sir  Jeremiah  L.  Hutchinson   March         2,  1875 

E.  Sir  Edward  S.  Keeler   March         2,  1875 

E.  Sir  Charles  Eugene  Meyer   March        -16,  1875 

R.  E.  Sir  Brenton  B.  Babcock   September    4,  1877 

E.  Sir  George  A.  Baker   September    4,  1877 

E.  Sir  Joshua  Moulton  Booth   September   4,  1877 

Sir  J.  Burton  Parsons   September   4,  1877 

Sir  Amos  Townsend   September    4,  1877 

Sir  Samuel  Briggs   September    4,  1877 

R.  E.  Sir  Charles  Moody  Morse   June  i,  1880 

Sir  Frank  Bottsford  Hine     December  21,  1880 

E.  Sir  Myron  M.  Parker   October       3,  1882 

V.  E.  Sir  T.  B.  Whytehead   October      16,  1883 

V.  E.  Sir  F.  E.  Tew   October      16,  1883 

V.  E.  Sir  J.  Cumberland   October      16,  1883 

E.  Sir  S.  Middleton   October      16,  1883 

E.  Sir  William  Lawton   November  20,  1883 

E.  Sir  G.  Simpson   November  20,  1883 

E.  Sir  James  Meek,  Kt   November  20,  1883 

E.  Sir  W.  T.  Orde-Powlett   November  20,  1883 

E.  Sir  M.  Millington   November  20,  1883 

E.  Sir  J.  W.  Woodall   November  20,  1883 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS. 


Adams,  John  F. 
Adams,  Wesley  Fisk 
Adcock,  Albert  William 
Addy,  Edward 
Aldrich,  William 
Alexander,  William  Henry 
Allard,  David 
Allen,  Benjamin 
Allen,  Frank  Sterling 
Allen,  Jonathan  Adams 
Allyn,  Nathaniel  Wheeler 
Almini,  Peter  Magnus 
Anderson,  Charles  Louis 
Anderson,  Francis  Adolphus 
Anderson,  Magnus 
Arms,  Lyman  Henry 
Arnold,  William  Bertram 
AsAY,  Edward  Gowen 
Aubrey,  James  M. 
Avers,  Frederick  Henry 
Avery,  Daniel  Judson 
Avery,  Samuel  Jeffrey 
Avars,  James,  Jr. 
Babcock,  Franklin 
Baker,  Orvis  Porter 
Baker,  William,  Taylor 
Bangs,  John  Dean 
Barlow,  Robert 
Barney,  John  Franklin 
Barney,  Fletcher  Norman 
Barnum,  William  Lewis 


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PRESENT  WEMBEKS— Con ftnugd. 

Barnes,  Merrick  Mortimer 

Barrell,  James 

Barrett,  Oscar  William 

Barrett,  Fred.  Morrell 

Bassett,  James  Swift 

Bean,  Edwin 

Beaver,  James  Eugene 

Beck,  Alexander  Richard 

Bendell,  Isaac  Horace 

Bendell,  Samuel  Books 

Bernhisel,  Luther  Melanchton 

Best  William 

Beveridge,  Peter  H. 

Biester,  Charles  Henry  Rudolph 

Bird,  Tilghman  Ralph 

Blackler,  William  Harvey 

Blain,  Joseph  Alexander 

Blair,  Charles  Hall 

Blossom,  Edward  Judson 

Booth,  Alfred 

Boyd,  Robert 

Boynton,  Daniel  Marsh 

Bradley,  Charles  Hodgson 

Bradley,  Timothy  Mathew 

Bradshaw,  Francis  Marius  • 

Bradwell,  James  Bollen 

Brawley,  Francis  William  Saltzman 

Brewster,  James  Patrick 

Briggs,  Hannibal  Birney 

Brower,  Charles  Homan 

Brown,  David  Paul 

Brown,  Frederick  Henry 

Brown,  Samuel 

Brown,  John  Mabbett 

Bruegger,  Abram,  Jr. 

Bruton,  James  Joseph 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Confinued. 

BuDLONG,  Joseph  Albert 
BuDLONG,  Lyman  Arnold 
BuELL,  James  Wallace 

BULLWINKLE,  BENJAMIN  B. 

Burgess,  Charles  Alfred 

BuRRiLL,  Andrew  Faust 

Burroughs,  George  T. 

Caberey,  Harvey  Raymond 

Caddeck,  Thomas  Elisha 

Caldwell,  Charles  Edwin 

Calkins,  John  W. 

Cameron,  Daniel  Ross 

Campbell,  Neil 

Campbell,  Leonard  Wright 

Carqueville,  Joseph  William  Edward 

Carpenter,  George  Benjamin 

Carson,  George  Washington 

Case,  James  Spears 

Cass,  Francis  Orlando 

Cecil,  Edward 

Chadband,  Walter 

Chaffee,  Charles  William 

Chamberlain,  Charles  Henry 

Chapin,  Gardner  Spring 

Chapman,  Sidney  Stoddard 

Chase,  Samuel  Brown 

Cherry,  Alexander 

Cherry,  James 

Chilcott,  George  Ferron 

Chittick,  Hugh 

Chittick,  Hugh  Jr. 

Christoph,  Henry  Jacob 

Clark,  Alson  Ellis 

Clark,  Charles  Melville 

Clark,  William  Dana 

Cleavkland,  Lorenzo  Dow 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Continued 

Cobb,  Martin  Robert 
CoBURN,  Charles  Edgar 
Cochrane,  John  Crombie 
Cochrane,  William 
Coey,  David 
Cole,  Elijah  C. 
Cole,  John  Ezekiel 
Colebrooke,  William 
CoLLisTER,  John  Shaeffer 
CoMSTocK,  Henry  Frank 
Condee,  Leander  Devine 
Conger,  Moore 
Conger,  Silas  Wright 
Cook,  Edward 
Cook,  George  Munson 
Corey,  Augustus  Burt 
CoTHRAN,  George  W. 
Cowdery,  Hiram  Calvin  Wells 
Coyne,  James  Harry 
Cranby,  John 
Cregier,  DeWitt  Clinton 
Crego,  David  Ray 
Crego,  Myron  Sanford 
Crilly,  Daniel  Francis 
Crocker,  Albert  Henry 
Crocker,  Ansel  Leland 
Cromlish,  Thomas 
Croxon,  Frederick  Thomas 
Culton,  John  Wesley  Jameson 
Culver,  Belden  Farrand 
Culver,  Washington  Irving 
Cummins,  William  G. 
Cummings,  Joseph  Emery 
Cunningham,  William  Henry 
Cunningham,  Thomas  Scott 
Curtiss,  Henry 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Continued, 

Gushing,  George  Washington 

Gushing,  John  William 

GusHMAN,  John  Glark 

Daggy,  Peter 

Daggett,  John  Oilman 

Danielson,  Charles  John 

Darlington,  Henry  Powell 

Dashiel,  Virgil  William 

Day,  Joseph  Leverett 

Delamater,  Samuel 

De  Long,  Benjamin  Franklin 

De  Luce,  James  Harvey  Tileston 

De  Luce,  William  Tileston 

Denby,  Louis  Henry 

Derby,  Glarence  Lindsay 

Devore,  Abraham  A. 

Dexter,  Ransom 

Dickinson,  David  Henry 

Dietz,  Gharles  Nelson 

Dixon,  Arthur 

Dixon,  Laban  Beecher 

Dodge,  Philo  Gates 

Doggett,  Joseph  Barker 

Dowler,  Thomas 

Downs,  William  Smith 

Drish,  John  Matthew 

Ducat,  Arthur  Gharles 

Dudley,  A.  H. 

Dunham,  Ransom  Williams 

DuNLOP,  Joseph  Rolston 

Dunn,  Ward  Gady 

Dutcher,  Gharles  Edwin 

DuvALL,  Harry 

Edbrooke,  George  Henry 

Elliott,  John  Gregg 

Elliott,  John  William 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS^ Continued. 

Ellis,  Richard  Gordon 
Emerick,  Jacob  Theodore 
English,  Gustavus  Percy 
Erickson,  George 
EsTELL,  David  R. 
Everest,  James  Grant 
Fairchild,  James  Hager 
Farlin,  Joshua  Whitney 
Farnum,  Ithiel  Parkhurst 
Ferguson,  Charles  Henry 
Fett,  Frederick  Matthew 
Field,  Henry  Demetrius 
Firth,  William  Henry 
Flinn,  William  Warren 
Floto,  William 
Follansbee,  Albert  Skinner 
P'ORSYTH,  Robert 
Foss,  Robert  Harris 
Foster,  Jacob  Frank 
Foster^  Jacob  Thomas 
Foster,  Benjamin  Franklin 
Freeman,  Daniel  Bigelow 
Freiberg,  Frederick 
French,  Thomas  Allen 
French,  Henry  Porter 
Fry,  Isaac  Hottenstein 
Fuller,  Hiram  Follett 
Fuller,  Moses  Nash 
Gadsden,  James  Samuel 
Garcia,  Bonifacio 
Garfield,  Albert  George 
Garrabrant,  Robert  Coles 
Gassette,  Norman  Theodore 
Gaunt,  Sylvester 
Gee,  John 
Geer,  Ira  Burrus 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Con finued. 

George,  John  Bronger 
George,  Simon  Chase 
Glade,  Henry  John  Conrad 
Gleason,  Arthur 
Goodrich,  Henry  Jefferson 
GoLL,  Bruno  Henry 
Gottfried,  Matheus 
Grace,  William 
Graham,  John 
Grannis,  Amos 
Gray,  John  Thomas 
Greaves,  James  Alfred 
Greene,  Edward  Merritt 
Greene,  John  Edward 
Griffiths,  John 

Griffiths,  William  S. 

Grinnell,  Julius  Sprague 

Gettins,  Edward  Hillery 

GuNTHER,  George  W. 

Gurney,  Theodore  Tuthill 

GuTH,  Henry 

Hackney,  Herbert 

Hall,  Charles  Edward 

Hall,  Charles  H. 

Hall,  Charles  Orton 

Halla,  Frederick 

Hale,  Edward  Chauncey 

Hammond,  Harry  Alonzo 

Hammon,  Charles  Napoleon 

Hancock,  William  Simonds 

Hansen,  Christian  Oluf 

Harding,  Amos  Joseph 

Harris,  Andrew  Jackson 

Harris,  Myron 

Harris,  William  Thomas 

Harrison,  Carter  Henry 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Conanued. 

Harper,  William  Henry 
Harvey,  Lorenzo  Norton 
Harvey,  William 
Haven,  Otis  Erastus 
Hawelka,  John  Joseph 
Heath,  Monroe 
Heinrichs,  Gustave 
Henderson.  Samuel  Myrick 
Hershey,  Frank 
Hess,  Frederick  Andrew 
Hewitt,  George 
HiBBARD,  Homer  Nash 
Hick,  George  Charles 
Higgins,  Van  Hollis 
Hitchcock,  James 
Hilger,  Ferdinand  Robinson 
Hilton,  Charles  Crosby 
Hilton,  George  Edward 
Hilton,  John  Clark 
Hinckley,  Francis  Edward 
HiTT,  John 

HoBBS,  Henry  Hoblitzell 
HoBBs,  Joseph 
Hoggins,  John 
Horn,  Adam  Errett 
Horton,  Elbridge  Micajah 
Houghton,  George  Nehemiah 
Hovey,  Asa  Ebenezer 
Hoxie,  John  Randolph 
Hoyt,  Henry 

Hubbard,  George  Washington 
Hubbard,  John  Maynard 
Hudson,  Polhemus  Searing 
HuLBURD,  Franklin 
Hulburt,  Alvin 
Humphrey,  Joseph  Clarence 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Con^inuec/. 

Humphrey,  Nelson  Ausom 
Hunter,  John  Humphrey 
HuRD,  Charles  Edward 
HuRD,  Herbert  Samuel 
Hurlbut,  Horatio 
Hurlbut,  Vincent  Lombard 
HuYCH,  John  Henry 
Hyde,  Charles  Edwin 
Ingram,  Robert  Jackson 
James,  Willard  Henry 
Jaquith,  Leonard  H. 
Jeffres,  Frank  Fremont 
Jenkins,  William  Henry 
Jerome,  William  Brown 
Johnson,  Hosmer  Allen 
Johnson,  Robert  Massie 
Johnson,  Peter  Conrad  Lippart 
Jones,  Benjamin  Franklin 
Jones,  Thomas  Mifflin 
Jones,  George  Kinney 
Jones,  William  Henry 

Kehl,  Charles  Henry 

Keen,  Edwin  Hall 

Kelley,  William  James 

Kent,  Benjamin  Atherton 

Kessler,  George  Turpin 

KiMBARK,  Daniel  Anery 

King,  Edward 

King,  John  Alfonso 

King,  William  Wallace 

Kinney,  William  Crane 

Kistler,  Louis 

Kohl,  Joseph 

Kotzenberg,  Charles 

Kretzinger,  Joseph  T. 

Kretzinger,  George  Washington 


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PRESENT  MEMBERS— Cmimued. 

Krimbill,  Andrew 
Lacey,  William  Everett 
Laflin,  George  Hinman 
Lamb,  Albert  Christopher 
Land,  Frank  Edgar 
Lane,  Charles  Hampson 
Launder,  William  Henry 
Lawrence,  George  Washington 
Leonard,  Charles  Egbert 
Lewis,  Leslie 
Lewis,  John  R. 
LiBBY,  Cyrus 

Lindstrand,  Frank  Albert 
LiNDSTROM,  Nils 
Lissenden,  Stephen 
LiTHGOw,  Charles  Henry 
LoBERG,  Nils  Peter 
Locke,  James  De  Witt  Clinton 
LooMis,  Eugene  Elijah 
Loomis,  Henderson  Earl  Wilson 
LooMis,  John  Edson 
LoRiMER,  George  Claud 
Loud,  Spencer  Livingston 
Loud,  William  Herbert 
Low,  Edward  John 
Luce,  Frank  Melville 
LuDLAM,  Jacob  Watson 
Ludlow,  George  Watson 
Lyons,  Joseph  McGee 
Macdonald,  Godfrey 
Maclean,  John  Donald 
Macomb,  George  Armstrong 
Malley,  William  James 
Marks,  Stewart 
Marsh,  John  Worthington 
Marshall,  George  Edward 


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PRESENT  UEMBERS—Conimued 

Matson,  Canute  R. 
Matz,  Otto  Herman 
Maull,  William  Charles 
May,  John  Wesley 
Maynard,  Henry  Oliver 
McCarty,  William  Walter 
McClevey,  Edward  Henry 
McCoRD,  John  Calvin 
McCune,  James 
McElwaine,  George 
McHenry,  William  E. 
McLean,  William  A. 
McNair,  James 
McNally,  Andrew 
McNaughton,  Samuel  Shadrack 
McVicKER,  James  Hubert 
McWilliams,  Samuel  A. 
Mead,  Wilson  Leroy 
Meech,  George  Appleton 
Mellin,  Swen  John 
Mergenthaler,  John 
Metzger,  Henry  Edwin 
Meyer,  Frederick 
MiDDLETON,  John 
Middleton,  Robert  H. 
Miles,  James  Hoge 
Miller,  De  Laskie 
Miller,  James  Gordon 
Miller,  John 
Miller,  Matthew  Mark 
Miller,  Peter  Swartz 
Mills,  Luther  Laflin 
Miner,  Anson  Bushnell 
MiscH,  Georqe  Alolph 
Mitchell,  Thomas  Strawbridge 
Montgomery,  George  Warner 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


PRESENT  MEMBERS— Cdn^mued. 

Moody,  John  Armstrong 
Moore,  Samuel  McClelland 
Morgan,  Morgan  Hiram 
Morgan,  Otho  Herman 
Morrison,  Edward  Wallace 
Morse,  Frank  E. 
Morse,  Ransom  Jones 
Morton  Mandred  Adolph 
Moth,  Morris  Jonathan 
Moulton,  Joseph  T. 
Munger,  George  Beyer 
Myers,  Eugene  Burritt 
Neal,  Thomas  Judson 
Neeley,  Joseph  Casper 
Nelson,  Nels 
Nichols,  Francis  Hervey 
NiCHOLLS,  Henry  Diston 
NiETHER,  Frederick  Herman 
NoRTHUP,  Frederick  Brown 
Norton,  John  Elbert 
NuTT,  Henry  Clay 
Oliver,  Francis  Stephen 
Oliver,  Stephen  Augustus 
O'Neill,  John 
Orr,  Harry  Butler 
Osgood,  James 
Ostrander,  John  Wesley 
Otto,  Joseph  P, 
Page,  Daniel  Webster 
Paine,  Freeman  Lester 
Park,  William  Henry 
Parker,  George  Herman 
Parker,  Orlando  Lucius 
Parker,  Thomas  Jr. 
Parmelee,  Franklin 
Parrotte,  Charles  Scripps 


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237 


PRESENT  MEyLBEKS  —  Con^inued. 

Patten,  Edgar  Switz 
Patterson,  Theodore  Henry 
Paul,  Edgar  Taylor 
Paul,  Samuel  Foster 
Pearson,  Samuel  A. 
Pendleton,  Charles  Augustus 
Pennington,  Louis  E. 
Penington,  Thomas  Clark 
Perry,  Edward 
Perry,  William  Thomas 
Pettengill  Rueben  T. 
Pettes,  William  Ethan 
Peyton,  Clark  Lorenzo 
Phillips,  John  Franklin 
Phillips,  James  Taber 
Pierce,  Aratus  French 
Pierce,  Warren  Albert 
Poland,  Charles  Albert 
Pollard,  Luther  Dana 

Potter,  Abraham  Charles 
PouLsoN,  William  Erskine 

Pratt,  Albert  Harrison, 

Pratt,  Charles  Lemuel 

Pratt,  Leander  Gage 

Preble,  William  Henry 

Prindle,  Corydon  Lester 

Pulling,  Howell  Gardner 

Pullman,  Albert  Benton 

Pullman,  William 

Ramsey,  William  Wilson 

Randall,  Thomas  David 

Rankin,  Sanford 

Ranney,  John  Sears 

Raymond,  Andrew 

Raymond,  James  Henry 

Reed,  Alanson  Henry 


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PRESENT  MEMBY.^^— Continued. 

Redfield,  Chandler  Starr 
Redfield,  George  Snowden 
Reid,  William  Henry 
Reiners,  Engelke  Diederich 
Remington,  Henry  Harrison 
Revell,  Alexander  Hamilton 
Rice,  Charles  Cushing 
Richardson,  William  Henry 
Riggle,  Millard  Fillmore 
Robinson,  Archibald  Hutchins 
Robinson,  David 
Robinson,  Oliver  Ormsby  Gregg 
Robinson,  Stephen  Lathrop 
Robinson,  William  Leach 
Roberts,  Everell  Phelps 
Robertson,  Robert 
Roddin,  Eugene  Vincent 
Rook,  John 

Ross,  Charles  Edmund 
Rothwell,  Harry  Robert 
Rounds,  Sterling  Parker 
RouNDY,  Daniel  Curtis 
Rusco,  Volney  Eddy 
Russell,  Alfred 
Russell,  '  Herbert  Maurice 
Russ,  Alamando  Bill 
Rust,  Henry  Appleton 
Ryerson,  Martin 
Sage  William  M. 
Sawyer,  Edward  Warren 
Schenck,  Henry  Harris 
Schermerhorn,  Byron 
Schnering,  Julius 
ScHWALL,  Andrew 
scrafford,  matthew  john 
Seaverns,  Joshua  Seaver 


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239 


PRESENT  MFMWKS— Continued. 

Seavey,  Thomas  Benton 
Seipp,  William  Conrad 
Sheffield,  Frank 
Shelby,  Daniel 
Shergold,  Henry  Rueben 
Sherman,  Edwin  Lee 
Sherman,  Francis  Trowbridge 
Sherman,  William  Wallace 
Sherwood,  Nehemiah 
Shibley,  Byron  Wagner 
Sidway,  Leverett  Barker 
Silver,  Arthur  David  Hall 

Simers,  Theodore  Dwight 

Simmons,  Charles  Marsh 

Simpson,  Andrew 

Simpson,  John  William 

Slaymaker,  Persifer  Eraser  Smith 

Smith,  Charles  Marsh 

SmitHj  James 

Smith,  Marvin  Eli 

Smith,  Samuel 

Spalding,  Charles  Warren 

Spies,  Joseph 

Sprague,  John  Grant 

Sprague,  William  Washington 

Springer,  Milton  Cushing 

Squiers,  Collins  Stephen 

Squires,  Zachariah,  Jr. 

Stanton,  William  Milton 

Starr,  James  Hubert 

Steele,  Samuel  At  wood 

Stephens,  John  William 

Stevens,  Aurelius  Eugene 

Stevens,  Charles  Woodbury 

Stevens,  Enoch  Bunker 

Stevens,  Robert  Ramsey 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


PRESENT  MEMBERS— Conanuia, 

Stevens,  Walter  Augustus 

Stevenson,  Alexander  Fleming 

Stewart,  Charles  Franklin 

Stewart,  John 

Stiles,  William  Asahel 

Stoddard,  James  Alonzo 

Storey,  Robert  Edward 

Stratton,  Charles  Cullen 

Styles,  Charles  Blair 

Summers,  Edward  Phillip 

Sutherland,  John 

Sutton,  John 

Swallow,  James 

Sweet,  Henry 

Talcott,  Lester  Asahel 

Taylor,  Charles  Asa 

Tennis,  John  C. 

Terhune,  Bower  Frederick 

Terwilliger,  Jeremiah  Marshall 

Thacker,  John  Franklin 

Thomas,  John  B. 

Thomasson,  Nelson 

Thompson,  George 

Thompson,  Jeremiah  Schureman 

Thompson,  John  Moursey 

Thonning,  Anders 

Thorpe,  Thomas  H. 

Thrall,  William  Austin 

Tiffany,  Henry  Stanton 

Tilden,  B.  Frank 

TiLLOTSON,  ElIPHALET  NoTT 

Timberlake,  William  Warner 
Tinley,  Charles 
Tonkin,  James 

tourtellotte,  frederick  william 
Tower,  Frank  Henry 


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PRESENT  WEUBY^^S— Continued 

TowNSLEY,  Henry  Philip 
Trench,  Richard  Robert 
Trimmer,  John  Robinson 
Troy,  Lewis  Laws 
Turner,  William  Harbron 
Tyler,  Addison  Hardy 
Tyler,  James  De  Lazarm 
Vail,  David 

Vandercook,  Charles  Ranney 
Van  Pelt,  George  Hakes 
Van  Voorhis,  Frank 
Vehmeyer,  Christian  Henry 
Wade,  John  Lafayette 
Wadlie,  Horace  Octavius 
Wait,  George  Albert 
Waldo,  John  Adams  Bodwell 
Walker,  Clarence  Eugene 
Walker,  Marvin 
Wallace,  David  Clark 
Wallace,  Joseph  Lemaster 
Wallwork,  John 
Waterbury,  Elbert  Marshall 
Webb,  William  Bray 
Webster,  Frank  Miller 
Wentworth,  Willard  Francis 
West,  Andrew  Frost 
Wheeler,  Frederick  Augustus 
Wheeler,  Harris  Ansel 
Wheeler,  William  Emott 
Whitehead,  James  Murdock 
White,  Frank  George 
Wilcox,  William  Henry 
Wilder,  Frank  Wellington 
Wiley,  Benjamin  Bowen 
WiLLETT,  Consider  Heath 
Williams,  George  Thomas 


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HISTORY  OF  APOLLO  COMMANDERY, 


PRESENT  WEM^ERS— Continued. 

Williams,  Robert 
Williams,  William  Benjamin 
Wilson,  F.  Cortez 
Wolff,  Ludwig 

WOLLENSAK,  JOHN  FlORIAN 

Wood,  Frank  Marion 
Wood,  James 
Woodbury,  Fitz  allen 
Woodruff,  Albert  Lucius 
W^ooDS,  Joshua  Green 
WooLLEY,  Charles  E. 
WoosTER,  James  Adolphus 
Wright,  Austin  Willard 
Wright,  Joseph  Duncan 
Young,  Christian  Otto 
Young,  Luther  Chad 


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ADDITIONAL  MEMBERS  NOV.  1885. 

Ames,  Henry  W. 
Blair,  Francisco 
Brenan,  Edward  Charles 
Bristol,  Frank  Milton 
Brown,  William  Chad. 

BUSCHMANN,  GUSTAY  CARL 

Cook,  William  Farley 
Drabek,  Charles 
Elliott,  William  Henry 
Ellis,  John  Cole 
Elstrom,  William  Daniel 
Gould,  Irving  Libby 
Hayes,  Daniel  Solomon 
Horn,  Frank  Churchill 
Irwin,  James  Clark 
Kelley,  David  Morris 
Lally,  John 
Leigh,  John  William 
LiTTLEjoHN,  Wiley  Jones 
Mead,  Maurice  Alexander 
Moore,  Cassius  Fremont 
Morrison,  William  M. 
Reynolds,  Frank  G. 
Reynolds,  Herbert  George 
Rutledge,  William  Stribling 
Smith,  Lewis  Martin 
Spicer,  Laurence  A. 
Steingardt,  Benjamin 
Van  Bokkelea  Benjamin  O. 
Wilder,  Henry  Harrison 
Williams,  Cyrus  Edward 
WiNSHiP,  Charles  Albert 


